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Typefaces made in 2011: t4le (a tall piano key face inspired by In Her Memory by Softhunterdevil), Theek, Theek Open (blackboard bold face), Tukan, Theen, Fluid, Sharp (angular). Typefaces from 2012: Lined (stencil), amcbl. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Small rune font archive. Has, for example, from Ecological Linguistics, their Maya glyph fonts DaysBF, DaysCodBold, DaysCodBoldItalic, DaysCodItalic, DaysCod, all made in 1994. From the American Philological Association, Jeffrey Rusten's Greek font Athenian (1991). Also, the Maya glyph fonts Abaj, AbajBold, TunBold, Tun, Wuuj, WuujBold, WuujBoldItalic, WuujItalic. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of the runic font Daedric (2001). See also here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designers of the original typefaces Ancients (almost runic), Forixx (similar) and Cruxxed (with a bit of a Rennnie Mackintosh influence), all at FontStruct in 2008. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Grosseto, Italy-based designer of the Etruscan simulation font AMFalseEtruscan. No downloads. See also here. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
A cooperative of designers who created Al-Bhed (2005), a futuristic runes face [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The Cyrillic font Saltan (2002) was designed by Alex Dscheremet. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Alex Moseley
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Alex Révész
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Alexander Faber
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Allrunes
| Carl-Gustav Werner's metafont code for runes (2001) of all kinds, Scandinavian, Continental, Gothic, Anglo-Frisian, Normal, Short-Twig, Staveless, Medieval. Carl-Gustav asked me to withhold his email address. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Alphabets Magical (was: Fuzzypeg's Homepage)
| Alphabets Magical has freeware rune and old writing system fonts by Ben Whitmore from New Zealand. They include AngelicR100, BarddasWRR100, DaggersR100, IEFutharkR100, Malachim, PVEnochian100, PWRunesR100, ThebanBW100, AlphGeniiFzpg100, Enochian-Regular, PictSwirlR100. He also has Enochian-Regular by the Digital Type Foundry, 1991. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Alphabetum
| Juan-José Marcos García (b. Salamanca, Spain, 1963) is a professor of classics at the University of Plasencia in Spain. He has developed one of the most complete Unicode fonts named ALPHABETUM Unicode for linguistics and classical languages (classical&medieval Latin, ancient Greek, Etruscan, Oscan, Umbrian, Faliscan, Messapic, Picene, Iberic, Celtiberic, Gothic, Runic, Modern Greek, Cyrillic, Devanagari-based languages, Old&Middle English, Hebrew, Sanskrit, IPA, Ogham, Ugaritic, Old Persian, Old Church Slavonic, Brahmi, Glagolitic, Ogham, ancient Greek Avestan, Kharoshti, Old Norse, Old Icelandic, Old Danish and Old Nordic in general, Bengali, Hindi, Marathi, Phoenician, Cypriot, Linear B with plans for Glagolitic). This font has over 5000 glyphs, and contains most characters that concern classicists (rare symbols, signs for metrics, epigraphical symbols, "Saxon" typeface for Old English, etcetera). A demo font can be downloaded [see also Lucius Hartmann's place]. His Greek font Grammata (2002) is now called Ellenike. He also created a package of fonts for Latin paleography (medieval handwriting on parchments): Capitalis Elegans, Capitalis Rustica, Uncialis, Insularis Minuscula, Carolingia Minuscula, Gothica Textura Quadrata and Humanistica Antiqua. PDf entitled Fonts For Latin Palaeography (2008-2011), in which Marcos gives an enjoyable historic overview. Alphabetum is not Marcos's only excursion into type design. In 2011, he created two simulation fonts called Sefarad and Al Andalus which imitate Hebrew and Arabic calligraphy, respectively. Cyrillic OCS (2012) is a pair of Latin fonts that emulate Old Church Slavonic (old Cyrillic). In 2013, he created Cuneus, a cuneiform simulation typeface. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Amanye Tenceli: Tengwar Calligraphy
| Tengwar calligraphic page by Måns Björkman from Sweden. Free fonts made by him include Sarati Eldamar (2005), Valmaric Eldamar (2006), Tengwar Scribe, Tirion Sarati (2002), Tengwar Parmaite. Plus many calligraphic notes. He explains: This page is dedicated to the beautiful writing systems that in Tolkien's works derived from the continent of Aman. They are often collectively called Tengwar, although strictly speaking this is wrong, Tengwar being the name of Feanor's writing system (Feanors Tengwar) but not of the Sarati, Rúmils script (the Tengwar of Rúmil). Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Amir El Habashy
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Ancient Scripts
| Ancient scripts: great jump page by Lawrence Lo. In 2003, he made the runic font Cypriot and the Old Italic font Oscan, which can be downloaded here. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
German graphic designer who designed the runic face Creatividad Agotada (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Andreas Höfeld
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Creator of many free runes and artificial language fonts in 2006: CircularGlyphs, CrudeRunes, DrakonesRunes, ElvenScript, Elvish, Incanalas, Jolesk, Karee, Naigach, Notras, Notras-Simple, Rische, Shad'houth, Slithzerikai, Templar, Undead-Runes, Vakaun. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Andreas Stötzner
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Orem, Utah-based designers of the beautiful dingbat font ArborisFolium (1976), and of Agathodaimon (runes and astrological symbols) and Animal Tracks. At Plazm, Andrew D. Taylor published Avenatha (1995). Avenatha at Mindcandy. Agathodaimon (alternate site). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator of the free font Brush Runes (2013, OFL). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
António Martins
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Aradia is a free runes and astrology font developed in 2000 by Merlin Software. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
archaic
| Peter R. Wilson's metafont code (2000-2005) for many archaic languages: Proto-Semitic (16bc), Phoenician (10bc), Greek (6bc), Greek (4bc), Etruscan (8bc), Futharc (Anglo-Saxon, 6ad), Hieroglyphics (30bc: the hieroglf provides a Metafont version of about 80 Egyptian hieroglyphs from Serge Rosmorduc's comprehensive hieroglyph package, see here for a type 1 version called Archaic-Poor-Mans-Hieroglyphs (2005)), Cypriot (9bc). Peter also developed metafont fonts for bookhands. The Archaic ollection contains fonts to represent Aramaic, Cypriot, Etruscan, Greek of the 6th and 4th centuries BCE, Egyptian hieroglyphics, Linear A, Linear B, Nabatean old Persian, the Phaistos disc, Phoenician, proto-Semitic, runic, South Arabian Ugaritic and Viking scripts. The bundle also includes a small font for use in phonetic transcription of the archaic writings. The bundle's own directory includes a font installation map file for the whole collection. The authors are Peter R. Wilson, Uwe Zimmermann and Apostolos Syropoulos. See here for the type 1 fonts Archaic-OandS (2005) and Archaic-OandS-Italic (2005). Here we find type 1 versions called Square-Capitals (2005) and Square-Capitals-Bold (2005). He also made the type 1 faces Archaic-Etruscan (2005), Archaic-Runic (2005) and Archaic-ProtoSemitic (2005). Further packages of type 1 and metafont fonts: Archaic-Aramaic (2005), South Arabian (2005, for the South Arabian script, in use for about 1000 years from roughly 600 BC; based on a metafont by Alan Stanier), Archaic-Linear-B (2005: a syllabary used in the Bronze Age (15bc) for writing Mycenaean Greek), Archaic-Nabatean (2005: the Nabatean script used in the Middle East between the fourth centuries BC and AD), Archaic-Old-Persian (2005: the Old Persian Cuneiform script in use between about 500 to 350 BC.), Archaic-Ugaritic-Cuneiform (2005: the Ugaritic Cuniform script in use about 1300 BC), Archaic-Cypriot (1999-2005). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Archive with some rune, medieval and Greek fonts. Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Victor Kalashnikov's Greek, Hebrew and Old Church Slavonic truetype font archive. Contains a few goodies such as the dingbats called FaithOrnaments (Proclaim Communications, 1994) and OldChurchSlavonic (Monotype). In all, about 100 Greek, Old Church Slavonic and Hebrew fonts. Among the Hebrew fonts, we find Moses Judaika, Pecan Sonc, and Gideon Medium. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Aridoshi, or Happy Vamil, is an American designer (b. 1992) who designed a font for the letters of Xenocristian, the language Vamil speaks. The font is ARGHDARITALLXENOCRISTIAN (2007). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Arild Hauge's rune font link site. Also, every imaginable rune alphabet is shown and explained. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French creator of the rune font Rune (2007). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German designer of the Interkosmo and Interkosmo2 rune fonts, and of the Perry Rhodan Standard FS font. See also here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Asgard Studios (Ottawa, Canada) used iFontmaker in 2011 to create Runes Hand Painted. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Astigmatic One Eye
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Fontsquirrel link. Dafont link. Fontspace link. A partial list of the AOE fonts made in 2011: Engagement (2011, a free brush script at Google Web Fonts), Fascinate (2011, an art deco face at Google Web Fonts; +Inline), Original Surfer (2011, a free Google Web Font inspired by a vintage advertisement for the "California Cliffs Caravan Park"), Smokum (2011, a Western / Italian face), Yellowtail (2011, signage face), Redressed (2011), Special Elite (2011, free typewriter face), Aclonica (2011). Typefaces from 2008 or before: Horseplay AOE (2008, Western style), Cake and Sodomy AOE (2008), Good Eatin AOE (2008), Paradiso AOE (2008, inspired by logotype of the Paris Resort and Casino in Las Vegas), Montelago AOE (2007, a script inspired by the logotype of the Mirage Resort and Casino in Las Vegas), Jack Chain AOE (2007), Henhouse (2007), Schnitzle (2007), Luxurian AOE (2007, inspired by the logo of the Luxor Hotel&Casino in Las Vegas), Digital Disco AOE (2007), Mighty Tuxedo AOE (2007), Makeshift AOE (2007), Clarity AOE (2007, slab serif headline), Red Pigtails AOE (2007), Run Tron 1983 (2002), Eyeliner AOE (2006, Tekton-like), Mother Hen (2007), Gloversville (2007, comic book style), Mighty Tuxedo AOE (2007, condensed sans), Quick Handle AOE (2007), Surfing Bird (2007), Hydrogen (2004), Hardliner (2004, fifties diner style), Big Ruckus (2004), SS Antique No. 5 (2004), Europa Twin (2003), EuroMachina (2003, techno), Lord Rat (2003), Love Anxiety (2003), BuzzSaw (2003), Skullbearer (2003, skull dingbats), Beatnick Blue (2002), Geisha Boy (2002), Mardi Party (2002), Midcrime (2002), Ocovilla (2002), Ruthless (2002), Saltie Doggie (2002), Whiskers (2002), Royal Gothic, Family, Eggit, Jericho, Wild Monkeys (2002), 5FingeredGothSW, AlienArgonautAOE, AlphaMackAOE, AmphibiPrint, AngiomaAOE, AntiChristSuperstar, AntiChristSuperstarSW, AstigmaSolid, BigLimboAOE, BigLimbodOutAOE, BoneRollAOE, BoneRollAOEBold, BoundAOE, BrailleAOE, BulletBallsAOE, ButterflyChromosome, ButterflyChromosomeAOE, ButtonButton, ButtonButtonAOE, CType, CTypeAOE, CelticLionAOE-Bold, CelticLionAOE-BoldItalic, CelticLionAOE-Italic, CelticLionAOE, CharailleAOE, ChickenScratch, ChickenScratchAOE, ClunkerAOE, ClunkerAOE-Bold, CropBats, CropBatsAOE, CropBatsIIAOE, DarkNightAOE, DeadGrit, DeliveryMatrixAOE, DetourAOE, DigitalDiscoAOE, DigitalDiscoAOEOblique, DingleBerries, DoggyPrintAOE, DraxLumaAOE, DungeonKeeperII, DungeonKeeperIIBold, DungeonKeeperIIItalic, EggItAOE, EggitAOE-Italic, EggitOutlineAOE, ElectricHermes, ElectricHermesAOE, ElectricHermesAOECharge, FearAOE, FilthAOE, FishyPrintAOEOne, FishyPrintOneAOE, FishyPrintTwoAOE, FutharkAOE, FutharkAOEInline, FutharkAOEInline, GateKeeperAOE, Ghoulish Fright AOE (2006), GlagoliticAOE (1999, grungy glagolitic), GorgonCocoonAOE, Gotik, GreyAlienSW, HAL9000AOE, HAL9000AOEBold, HAL9000AOEBoldItalic, HAL9000AOEItalic, HandageAOE, HandageAOEBold, HauntAOE, HybridLCDAOE, IDSupernovaSW, IslanderAOE, JokerWildAOE, KillMeCraig, KillMeCraigAOE, Kinderfeld, KittyPrint, KittyPrintAOE, Kornucopia, KornucopiaAOE, LinusFace, LinusFaceAOE, LinusPlayAOE, LinusPlaySW, Lochen, LovesickAOE, Manson, MasterPlan, Microbe, MooCowSW, MotherlodeLoadedAOE-Italic, MotherlodeLoadedAOE, MotherlodeStrippedAOE-Italic, MotherlodeStrippedAOE, MysterioSWTrial, NightmareAOE, OrnaMental, Pantera, PapaManoAOE, PenicillinAOE, PixelGantryAOE, PixelGantryAOEBold, PixelGantryAOEBoldItalic, PixelGantryAOEHeavy, PixelGantryAOEHeavyItalic, PixelGantryAOEItalic, PixelGantryHiliteAOE, PixelGantryHiliteAOEItalic, PoppyAOE, PoseidonAOE, Prick, QuiltedAOE, QuiltedAOEBlack, QuiltedTrial, RippleCrumb, RippleCrumbUltraCon, ROCKY, ROCKYAOE, RustedMachineSW, SSExpAntiqueAOE, Schizm, Schrill, SchrillAOE, SchrillAOEOblique, Scrawn, ScrawnAOE, ScrawnCyrAOE, ScrawnKOI8AOE, ScrewedAOE, ScrewedAOEOblique, ScrewedSW, SeaweedFireAOE, SenthAOE, ShampooSW, ShottyTransferTrial, SkinnerAOE, SlurCrumb, SpatCrumb, SpikeCrumbGeiger, SpikeCrumbSwizzle, SpikeCrumbSwollen, SteelcapRubbingTrial, StruckSW, StrutterAOE, SunspotsAOE, SurferComicTrial, TRANSHUMANALPHABET10, TRANSHUMANKATAKANA20, TannarinAOE, TannarinAOEOblique, TibetanBeefgardenAOE, TibetanBeefgardenAOE, TouristTrapAOE, TransponderAOE, TransponderGridAOE, UglyStickAOE, VanguardIIIAOE-Bold, VanguardIIIAOE-BoldOblique, VanguardIIIAOE-Oblique, VanguardIIIAOE, Ventilate, VentilateAOE, Y2KPopMuzikAOE, Y2KPopMuzikOutlineAOE, YoungItchAOE, ZeichensSW, ZenoPotionAOE, Zombie. Second list: BeatnikBlueAOE, BeatnikBlueFillAOE, GeishaBoyAOE, MardiPartyAOE, MindCrimeAOE, OcovillaAOE, PolynesianTouristAOE, RuthlessAOE, SaltyDoggieAOE, SpruceAOE, WhiskersAOE-Oblique, WhiskersAOE, WhiskersAltCapsAOE-Oblique, WhiskersAltCapsAOE (2002), Habitual, Automatic (techno), Bitrux, Filth, Cake&Sodomy, Gulag, Bad Comp, Detour, Alien Argonaut, Dark Night, GateKeeper, Gargamel Smurf, Invocation, Neuntotter, Geisha Boy, Saratoga Slim, Gobe, Stingwire, Lavatype, Tapehead, Islander, Clunker, Digelectric, Gargamel, Krulo-Tag, Krelesanta, SurferComic, Bound, Culture Vulture, Intruder, Cavalier, Anoxia, Synchrounous (IBM logo style lettering), Luna, Data Error, Lunokhod, Jericho. There are many techno and gothic fonts. Kill Me Craig is the first 26 death scene dingbat font (scenes by Craig Dowsett). KittyPrint takes the LinusFace font concept to more realistic cat head dingbats. Krelesanta (not free) is a funky font inspired by the band Kreamy Electric Santa. The free ButtonButton is useful for making buttons. Lovesick AOE is a scrawly, lovelorn typeface, i's dotted with hearts. Strutter AOE is based on the KISS logo. Senth AOR is a runic font. Charaille is one of the many dot matrix fonts. Cavalero is inspired by the logotype of the Chevy Cavalier. At Bitstream in 2001, AOE published Cavalero, Stingwire and Tannarin. And in 2002, he published the comic book font Big Limbo, Euro Machina BT and Islander there. Bio at Bitstream. In 2005, Bonislawsky and Sandler realeased 500 fonts, via Bitstream and MyFonts, under the label Breaking The Norm. In 2006, Astigmatic published their typewriter collection, which includes Military Document, Bank Statement, State Evidence Small Caps, State Evidence, Urgent telegram, Library Report, Overdrawn Account, Customs Paperwork, Incoming Fax and Office Memorandum. From the bio and various pieces of information, one is led to believe that Brian was born in Poland, and now lives in Miami, but that may be wrong. In 2010, he placed a free font at the Google Directory, Syncopate. Along the same lines, we find the derived square serif face Stint Ultra Condensed (2011, Google Web Fonts) and Stint Ultra Expanded (2012). In 2011, several other faces followed there, like Ultra (fat didone), Maiden Orange, Special Elite, Just Another Hand, Crushed, Luckiest Guy (comic book face), Aclonica, Redressed, Montezuma (a curly connected upright script), Devonshire (brush script), Fondamento (calligraphic lettering), Yellowatil (connected retro script), Righteous (free at Google Web Fonts: inspired by the all capitals letterforms from the deco posters of Hungarian artist Robert Berény for Modiano), Ribeye and Ribeye Marrow> (cartoon and/or tattoo style lettering---free at Google Web Fonts), Spicy Rice (2011, free festive display face at Google Web Fonts). Contributions in 2012: Marcellus (2012, Trajan, flared roman), Eagle Lake (a free calligraphic font at Google Web Fonts), Uncial Antiqua, Jim Nightshade (2012, free at Google web fonts), Dynalight (2012, a retro script inspired by a vintage luggage tag for the Southern Pacific 4449 Daylight steam locomotive), Yesteryear (a retro script loosely based on the title screen from the 1942 film The Palm Beach Story), Parisienne (Google Web Fonts: casual connected script based on a 1960s ad for bras), Shojumaru (Google Web Fonts: an oriental simulation face inspired by a poster for the Marlon Brando movie Sayonara), Berkshire Swash (Google Web Fonts), Audiowide (Google Web Fonts), Romanesco (Google Web Fonts: a narrow calligraphic style), Galindo (Google Web Fonts), Oregano (Google Web Fonts: based on cartoon style lettering of calligrapher and logo designer Rand Holub. This style of hand lettering adorned many retro brochures and advertisements of the late 40's through the 1960's), Peralta (Google Web Fonts: an Egyptian comic book face), Eagle Lake (Google Web Fonts: calligraphic), McLaren (Google Web Fonts: comic book style alphabet), Freckle Face, Hanalei Fill, Hanalei [Polynesian bamboo or tiki lettering], Purple Purse, Margarine, Risque, Clicker Script [image], Stalemate [a gracious script, by Jim Lyles for AOE], Mouse Memoirs, Quintessential [Google Web Fonts: chancery hand], Bigelow Rules, Englebert [Google Web Fonts: from the title screen of the 1930's film titled Der blue Engel, starring Marlene Dietrich], Sacramento [Google Web Fonts: connected script]. Typefaces from 2013: Freckle Face (grunge), Grand Hotel, Purple Purse (Purple Purse draws its inspiration from a vintage Ivory Soap ad from the 1950's. Somewhat of a cross between Bodoni and Pixie, this font finds that it never truly takes itself seriously). Stiggy & Sands is the American typefoundry of Brian Bonislawsky and Jim Lyles, est. 2013. Their first commercial typefaces, all jointly designed, are Luckiest Guy Pro (a fat comic book font based on vintage 1950s ads) and Marcellus Pro (a flared roman inscriptional typeface with both upper and lower case, originally published in 2012 by Astigmatic). View Astigmatic's typeface library. View the typefaces made by Brian Bonislawsky. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Astral Spirits (or: Yuki's Fonts)
| Designer of the free game fonts FFU-Font (2001, runic), MelniksFont (2000, alien language gluphs), MusyaFont (2001, runic symbols). The company has been known as Astral Spirits, FF:U, NAMCO and CAPCOM. The latter are names of games marketed by them. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Designer of the artificial rune pixel font Picorean for the invented Picori language (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Avallaen
| The Avallaen alphabet is the creation of Thomas Maska and is modelled, to some extent, on the script of the Voynich Manuscript. Thomas created the alphabet to write his conlang, also known as Avallaen. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Artificial language/rune fonts Boriani (1999) and Urboriani (1999) for an imaginary world. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of the rune font simply called Rune (2000-2001). Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Australian designer who drew the glyphs for Su Lucas' Junari Claws runes font (2002). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ben Debaan
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Ben Whitmore
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Fontstructor who made these faces in 2011: Poster Capitals (beveled face), Calculation (LED face), Keybored, Shadow 1.0, Printedserif, Filled 1.0, Outline 2.0, Outline 1.0, Ytwo, Sharpequill, Plugh.xyzzy, Roundal, 8bit. Runicals (2012) is based upon the runes found on the map and on the title pages of both The Hobbit and he Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of the free fonts Artemis Fowl (2005), Heavy Weight Gamer (2005), Spindle's End (2005), Suze (2005), Astra Lines (2005) and Pixel Chunker (2005). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Welsh youngster (b. 1993) who created Dwarvish (2008, runes). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
In 2012, he published a number of medieval style typefaces: Throrian, Mirkwood Chronicle, Gothic Birthday Cake, Elementary Gothic (+Bookhand), EG Dragon Caps, Renny Hybrid, Bruce, East Anglia (Lombardic). Abstract Fonts link. A second Dafont link. FontM link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Rune archive page by Björn Asle Taranger. Interesting fonts: Merlin, Lincoln (blackletter), both by Corel, Lakise (Mac font), Hermetic, Futhark, Enochian and HebrewScript (the latter three all by the Digital Type Foundry), Dethek-Dwarvish-FR, Fantasy Forgotten Realms. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Rune fonts. Plus Woolbats (has some astrological dingbats), LinearB and Moonphases by Curtis Clark. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bob Lippman
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Bob Lippmann
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Bob Oswald
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Full list, at the end of 2008: AngstRidden (angst-ridden handwriting, dated 2002 under the label Mahoney Fine Arts), Bolt-Cutter-Light, Bolt-Cutter-Nasty, Bolt-Cutter, CSAR-Italic, CSARVESTMENT (illuminated caps), Bloody Irish Bastard or Congeal (2001), Deborah (Western), DeborahCondensed, DeborahExtrasOrnaments, DeborahFancyDress, Dominatrix, EutemiaI-Italic, EutemiaII-BoldItalic, EutemiaIII-BoldItalic, EutemiaOrnaments, GeneticEngine, GideonPlexus, KREMLINMINISTRY-DemiBoldItalic, Kremlin-Advisor-Display-Kaps-Bold, Kremlin-Samovar-Extra-Bold, Kremlin-Samovar, Kremlin-Soviet-Italic, Kremlin-Tsaritsa-Italic, Kremlin, KremlinAdviser, KremlinAlexander-Bold, KremlinBolshevik-Bold, KremlinComrade, KremlinCzar, KremlinDuma-Bold, KremlinEmperor-Bold, KremlinEmpire, KremlinGeorgianI3D, KremlinGrandDuke, KremlinImperial, KremlinKiev, KremlinKommisar, KremlinKourier-II, KremlinKourierII-Bold, KremlinMenshevik-Bold, KremlinMenshevik-BoldItalic, KremlinMinister-Black, KremlinMinister-Bold, KremlinMinister, KremlinMinisterBlack3D-Bold, KremlinOrthodoxChurch, KremlinPravda-Italic, KremlinPravda, KremlinPremier, KremlinStarets, KremlinSynod, MarquisDeSade, MarquisDeSadeAlternates, MarquisDeSadeOrnaments, Kremlin Chairman, Metal-Macabre, NewSymbolFont, ODINS-SPEAR-HOLLOW (2002, runes), ODINS-SPEAR (runic), OurSacredRights-Bold, PhatGrunge-Bold, Precious, StarmanCrusader, TEK-HED-AGGRESIVE (the TEK (techno) series is from 2003), tEK-HED-ANGRY, TEK-HED-BOLIMIC, TEK-HED-LAZY, TekHedRegular, ThorsHammerCarved (2008, chiseled look), csar, csarparadedress. Fonts from 2009: Vlad tepes II (creepy). Fonts from 2010: Sarcophagus. Fonts from 2012: Baris Cerin (a bastardized Garamond caps face). Fonts from 2013: Precious (connected formal script). Fontspace link. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Boudewijn Rempt
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Designer of the Trondheim runes font, which can be downloaded here. Harold Sauer, an MD at Michigan State University writes: Bradley Poulson, M.D. was a dear friend and medical classmate of mine. He was also an avid Macintosh user, buying his first Mac on the first day the computer was available in January of 1984. He was an internist in Manitowoc/Two Rivers, Wisconsin, U.S.A. who also liked to design fonts, like Trondheim. Bradley (1953-1990) met an untimely end in a car accident in his adopted Wisconsin on a snowy and icy day in December of 1990. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Brian J. Bonislawsky
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Creator of the fonts Zereskaoate (Mihu, Modern Hunzai Standard) and Zereskaoate Simplified (Mihu) (2008) for the conlang (artificial language) Zereskaoate Mihu. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Original fonts by "Browny": Farscape1 (based on the commercial font Prichard) and Delvian Script, a rune font. Farscape was further improved by Scorpwanna in Farscape2 (Farscape Complete). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bruce Kvam made the free rune font Angerthas, also downloadable from eksten. Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Carl-Gustav Werner
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Designer of the free font "Greek Garamond". The page also archives some fonts by others, such as Academiury-ITV, CopticNormal, CopticNormal_II, Cyrillic-Regular, Greek-garamond-1.1, Greek-garamond, Greek, Linear-B, Masis, Ultima-Runes----ALL-CAPS, gothic-1. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Carolyn Horn (aka Andy Schaeff) posted her own fonts on abf on November 4, 2002: a1_bln_ogham, a1koelbren, a1_runes, A&ModernCarolynian. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
One runic truetype font for all this: Elder Futhark - Old-Germanic/Teutonic Runes, Younger Futhark - Norse Runes of the Viking age, Anglo-Friesian Futhork - the Runes of the Anglo-Saxon England and Friesland, Arman Futhork - 18 Runes according to Guido von List. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Archive with rune and uncial fonts, as well as a few other faces. The fonts in caps are by Arc Media (1997) and are blatant copies of existing faces: ANDREIAN-Regular (1997, an Arc Media copy of Arnold Boecklin), AngloSaxonRunes, AngloSaxonRunes1, AngloSaxonRunes2, AvalonQuestRegularSWFTE, BeaniePlain, BlackChancery, BookAntiqua-Bold, BookAntiqua-BoldItalic, BookAntiqua-Italic, BookAntiqua, CelticBold, CirthErebor, CopperplateGothic-Bold, CopperplateGothic-Light, DANIEL-Regular, DOROSIA-Regular, DwarfRunes, DwarfRunes1, DwarfRunes2, ExocetHeavy, ExocetLight, FERGUSON-Regular, LucidaBlackletter, MaturaMTScriptCapitals, MerlinPlain, Nosferatu, OakWood, OldEnglish, PHILEMON-Regular, PapyrusLetPlain, Patrick, ROSANNA-Regular, TOLOISI-Regular, TREVOR-Regular, TengwarCursive, TengwarGandalfMedium, TengwarNoldor, TengwarNoldor1, TengwarNoldor2, TengwarQuenya, TengwarQuenya1, TengwarQuenya2, TengwarSindarin, TengwarSindarin1, TengwarSindarin2, TirionSarati, Tolkien, VikingMedium, Windsor, WindsorBOLD. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Cercurius (was: Lars Törnqvist Typografi)
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And a jump list for Fraktur fonts. MyFonts link to his foundry, Lars Törnqvist Typografi. View Lars Törnqvist's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
American creator (b. 1979) of an artificial language font, Common Radian (2009), which is based on an alphabet used by characters in The Peacock King. She lives in Portland, OR. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Charles Woolbright (aka Razorwing) is the designer from South Georgia of Espruar Third Edition (2003), which was used in "Wizards of the Coast's Forgotten Realms". [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Chiba Chiba
| Frederico Antunes (Chiba Chiba) is a designer From Porto Alegre, Brazil. At T-26, he published the runic display face Pixo (2007). In 2009, he created the boxy rave and drugs-inspired Fiasco (YouWorkForThem) and the experimental Cabulosa (YouWorkForThem). Other fonts include VoidJam and Cachorra (based on urban Brazilian calligraphy). MyFonts link. YouWorkForThem link. MyFonts foundry link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic Design student in 2013 at Leeds College of Art. Creator of a nordic typeface called Nutharc (2013), named after the Futhark style. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Athens-based photographer, b. 1986, aka Kailor. Creator of Kaifo (2007, a hookish display face), and AnglosaxonicRunic (2007). Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Christopher J. Noyes
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Seattle-based designers of Armanic Runes (2000), a font with rune symbols used by some people that are into the occult. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of D'Ni, a strange script font (D'Ni is a trademark of Cyan Productions). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Comicraft (or: Active Images)
| Comicraft was founded by Richard Starkings and John Roshell in 1992. Located in Santa Monica and Los Angeles, they do lettering and design for the comic book industry and make comic book fonts. At one point they were also called Comic Book Fonts. The current presidents are Rita Simpson and Richard Starkings. Alternate URL. T-26 link. Some fonts: Sanctum Sanctorum (2003), Grandguignol (2003), MagicalMysticalFour (2003), Smash (2003), Aztech, Joe Kubert, Gobbledygook, Meanwhile, Matinee Idol [Nick Curtis has a much nicer script font by the same name, sold by MyFonts], Manganese (Asian-lookalike by Richard Starkings), Altogether OOky (by John Roshell), AbsolutelyFabulous, Achtung Baby (1997, Richard Starkings: a brutalist typeface), Adamantium, Alchemite, AstroCity, AstroCity International, Bithead, BrontoBurger, CarryOnScreaming, Chills, ClobberinTime, Comicrazy, Destroyer, DivineRight, DoubleBack, DutchCourage (1995, an art deco family), Elsewhere (art nouveau), Flameon, Framistat (2000, JG), Frostbite, GrimlyFiendish, Hooky, Hellshock, IncyWincySpider, JimLee, JoeMad, KissAndTell, KissAndTell International (2000, JG), Meltdown, MonsterMash, PhasesOnStun, PulpFiction, ResistanceIs..., RunningWithScissors, SchoolsOut (1999, John Roshell), SezWho/SezYou, SpookyTooth, Spills, Splashdown, StandBy4Action, Stormtrooper, TheStorySoFar, ToBeContinued, Thrills, WildWords, WildWords International, YuleTideLog, Zoinks, ZAP Pack, Digital Delivery, Jeff Campbell (2000, by JG), Los Vampiros, DeadMansChest, Cutthroat International (2000), Rigor Mortis (2000, John Roshell), DangerGirl, Thingamajig, Red Star, Red Square, Drop Case, Too Much Coffee Man, NearMyth, Stonehenge, Golem and SwordsAndSorcerers (medieval or runes fonts). Their monster fonts collection includes MonsterMash, CarryOnScreaming, Chills, GooseBumps, CreepyCrawly, Grimly Fiendish, IncyWincySpider, SpookyTooth, Meltdown and TrickorTreat dingbats. In 2005, MyFonts started selling their collection. Fonts by Starkings include Achtung Baby, Carry On Screaming, Clobberin Time, Flame On, Goosebumps, Grimly Fiendish, Sez, Splashdown. The full font list: Absolutely Fabulous (1999), Achtung Baby (1997), Adam Kubert (2005), Adamantium (1999), Alchemite (1997), Altogether Ooky (1999), Area51 (2005), Astro City (2005), Astronauts In Trouble (2005), Atomic Wedgie (2005), Aztech (2005), Battle Cry (2005), Battle Scarred (2005), Belly Laugh (2005), Biff Bam Boom (2005), Bithead (1997), Blah Blah Blah (2005), Bronto Burger (1996), Carry On Screaming (1996), Chatterbox (2005), Cheeky Monkey (2005), Cheese And Crackers (2005), Chills (1997), Clobberin Time (1995), Comicrazy (1995), Creepy Crawly (2005), Cutthroat (2005), Danger Girl (2005), Dave Gibbons (2005), Dead Mans (2005), Dear Diary (2005), Designer Genes (2005), Destroyer (1999), Digital Delivery (2005), Divine Right (1998), Doohickey (2005), Double Back (1998), Dreamland (2005), Drop Case (2005), Dutch Courage (1995), Elsewhere (1998), Euphoria (2005), Exterminate (1999), Face Front (2005), Flame On (1997), Forked Tongue (2005), Framistat (2005), Frostbite (1997), Girls Girls Girls (2005), Gobbledygook (2005), Golem (2005), Goosebumps (2005), Grande Guignol (2005), Grimly Fiendish (1998), Hedge Backwards (2005), Hellshock (1997), Hooky (1999), Hush Hush (2005), Hyperdrive (2005), Incy Wincy Spider (1996), Jeff Campbell (2005), Jeff Campbell Sketchbook (2005), Jim Lee (1998), Joe Kubert (2005), Joe Mad (1999), Kiss And Tell (1999), Ladronn (2005), Los Vampiros (1999), Manganese (1999), Matinee Idol (2005), Meanwhile (2005), Meltdown (1997), Mike Wieringo (2005), Monster Mash (1997), Near Myth (2005, a grunge face, since 2007 also at T26), Nuff Said (2005), Overbyte (2005), Paranoid Android (2005), Pascual Ferry (2005), Pass The Port (2005), Phases On Stun (1995), Primal Scream (2005), Pulp Fiction (1996), Red Square (2005), Red Star (2005), Resistance Is (1997), Rigor Mortis (2005), Rumble (1994), Running With Scissors (1997), Sanctum Sanctorum (1998), Santas Little Helpers (2005), Schools Out (1999), Sean Phillips (2005), Sentinel (2005), Sez (1998), Shannon Wheeler (2005), Shannon Wheeler (2005), Smash (2005), Snowmany Snowmen (2005), Soothsayer (2005), Spellcaster (2005), Spills (1997), Splashdown (1997), Spookytooth (2005), Stand By4 Action (1997), Stonehenge (2005), Stormtrooper (1997), Thats All Folks (2005), The Story So Far (1998), Thingamajig (2005), Thrills (1997), Tim Sale (1999), Tim Sale Brush (2005), Tim Sale Lower (2005), Timelord (2005), To Be Continued (2005), Too Much (2005), Tough Talk (2005), Treacherous (2005), Trick Or Treat (2005), Wall Scrawler (2005), Wiccan Sans (1999), Wiccan Serif (1999), Wiccan Special (1999, see also T-26), Wild And Crazy (1997), Wild Words (1995), Yada Yada Yada (2005), Yeah Baby (2005), Yuletide Log (1996), Zoinks (2005), Phil Yeh (2006), Zzzap (2006), Battle Damaged (2007), Speeding Bullet (2006), Foom (2007), Letterbot (2007), Timsale (2007), Cutthroat (2007), Framistat (2007), Area 51 (2007, techno, octagonal), CC Comicraft (2007), Ratatat (2008), Mad Scientist (2008), Monologous (2008, T-26), HolierThanThou (2008, T26), Elephantmen (2008, grunge face at T26), Storyline (2008, T-26), Primal Scream (2009, T-26), Spillproof (2009, T-26), Sign Language (2008), Moritat (2009, T-26, by John Roshell), Pass The Port (2009, T-26), Credit Crunch (2009), Elsewhere (2009, art nouveau), Code Monkey (2011, monospaced yet informal), Glitter Girl (2011, handprinted), Rassum Frassum (2011, comic book face), Rocket Man (2011, a retro futuristic family), Spaghetti Western (2011, signage face). View Comicraft's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Rune and rune dingbat font archive: ChaoSquat, Eldar, Imperial1, Marines, Morpheus, Orky1. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Conceptual Tengwar fonts
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Constructed Languages
| Boudewijn Rempt's fonts for imaginary and not-so-imaginary languages: Afaka-Roman (from Surinam, with help from Rob Nierse), Bugis-Makassar, DendenChancelleresca, Eqalar3 (for Pablo Flores' language Draseleq), goidel, gothic-1, Keiaans-(Kayenian), Mandeville-Hebreeuws, Meroitic-boldItalic, Mandeville-Chaldeeuws, Mandeville-Grieks, Mandeville-koptisch, Mandeville-Saracen, Nosjhe-standard (with Christophe Grandsire), hPhags-pa-(rotated), selang, selang-cursief, Ü-chan, ValdyaansKlerkenschrift, 2ValdyaansKlerkenschrift. He created Gothic after the alphabet devised by the Visigothic Bishop Wulfila (Lat. Ulfilas), 311-383 AD. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Cornisch is a rune font. Unclear for which time and place. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dead link. Stephan Baitz's informative page about Ancient Scripts and Fonts, including fantasy fonts, alien and sci-fi fonts, Blackletter fonts, uncials, runes, symbolic fonts, Indic simulation fonts, Arabic simulation fonts (such as Caliph) and exotic fonts. Lots of links are provided as well. Fonts are displayed an can be downloaded from an archive. His page looks great too. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
FontStructor whose fonts in 2011 include the runic simulation face Stanley. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Crazy Diamond Design Historical Fonts
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Cumberland Fontworks
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Fontspace link. Dafont link. Klingspor link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
From Encyclopaedia Britannica: System of writing used in the ancient Middle East. The name, a coinage from Latin and Middle French roots meaning "wedge-shaped", has been the modern designation from the early 18th century onward. Cuneiform was the most widespread and historically significant writing system in the ancient Middle East. The origins of cuneiform may be traced back approximately to the end of the 4th millennium BC. At that time the Sumerians, a people of unknown ethnic and linguistic affinities, inhabited southern Mesopotamia and the region west of the mouth of the Euphrates known as Chaldea. Many of the cultures employing cuneiform (Hurrian, Hittite, Urartian) disappeared one by one, and their written records fell into oblivion. The same fate overtook cuneiform generally with astonishing swiftness and completeness. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
CuneiformComposite
| A University of Pennsylvania site where a great free cuneiform font, CuneiformComposite (2004-2007) can be found. It was created and is maintained by Steve Tinney. Alphabetician and font designer Michael Everson of Evertype corrected many glyph problems. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Curtis Clark of the Biological Sciences Department at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona, CA, designed these fonts between 1992 and 1998: Linear B, Piecharts, Female and Male Symbols (1996), Moon Phases, Celtic Ogham, Elder Futhark, Beth-Luis-Rearn, Beth-Luis-Nion and Woolbats (occult dings, astrological symbols). Free downloads. His site is also called Mockingbird Font Works. Dafont link. Fontspace link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
D. Paul Alecsandri
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Hungarian designer at FONTana Typestudio of the rune font Csenge. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Daedric is a rune font for the Tamriel Daderic Alphabet. It is used in the Battlespire Files game. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Daehej
| This artificial language by Alexander Faber has its own fonts: DaehejBlock, DaehejHandwriting (1999). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Dan M. Zadorozny
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Dan Smith's Fantasy Fonts for Windows
| Dan Smith's historical/rune fonts for Germanic, Anglo/Saxon and Dwarvish, RUNenglish (runic-looking English), Celtic-looking knotwork fonts (DS_Celtic_Border-1), Tolkien-Tengwar fonts (Tengwar Quenya, Tengwar Sindarin, Tengwar Noldor), Mysticora (2001), DS Charity, DS Aqua, DS Khazuldum (for an alphabet invented by David De Lane Snow), DS_Sinenya (also for an alphabet invented by David De Lane Snow), and Tolkien-Cirth fonts (Cirth-Erebor has 6 weights including various Caps). All free. Mirror. Alternate URL. Archive of some of Smith's fonts. Current font list: AmericanUncialNormal, AngloSaxonRunes, AngloSaxonRunes1, AngloSaxonRunes2, DwarfRunes, DwarfRunes1, DwarfRunes2, GermanicRunes, GermanicRunes1, GermanicRunes2, VikingMedium, CelticBold, DSAqua1, DSCeltic1, DSCeltic2, DSCelticBorder1, DSCharity, DSKhazuldum, DS_Mysticora, DSNasilnese, DSRUNEnglish1, DSRUNEnglish2, DSSinenya, TengwarNoldor, TengwarNoldorA, TengwarNoldor1, TengwarNoldor2, TengwarQuenya, TengwarQuenyaA, TengwarQuenya1, TengwarQuenya2, TengwarSindarin, TengwarSindarinA, TengwarSindarin1, TengwarSindarin2, CelticBold, DwarfRunes, DwarfRunes1, DwarfRunes2, GermanicRunes, GermanicRunes1, GermanicRunes2, VikingMedium. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Cartoonist in Kent, UK (b. 1984), who created Tengwar of Fëanor (2006) and Angerthas Runes (2006). Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Daniel Poeira was Daniel Leal Werneck. Researcher at midia@rte - Multimedia Lab at the School of Fine Arts / UFMG (Brazil). Visual artist who lives in Belo Horizonte, b. 1979. Designer of the handwriting faces Dwerneck (2005) and Alex Toth (2010), of Papercuts (2007), of Sonic Comics (2009, comic book face), of Monteiro Lobato (2007, grunge), of Metropolitan Regular (2010, grunge), of Glagolitsa (2008, runic), of Brecht (2008, squarish), and of Psicopatologia de la Vida Cotidiana (2005). Alternate URL. Alternate URL. Alternate URL. FADU-UBA link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Daniel S. Smith
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This small archive has, e.g., Atlantean (1999, Walt Disney Company: runes), Disney-Dingbats, Dracula, Kidnap, MorseCode (Corel), MusicalSymbolsNormal, SignLanguage, Signs, Tribal, WDIMemo (Monotype). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Daniel Steven Smith
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Daniel Viberg
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Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Darien Valentine
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American digital artist who created a runic alphabet in 2011. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Darren Rigby
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David Bale (DASH Software) made some rune fonts such as Dethek (1994) and Common Tongue. See also here. See also here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
David Kerkhoff
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David Kovalchik
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David Myriad Rosenbaum
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David Myriad's FontORama
| David Myriad Rosenbaum (El Sobrante, CA) created high quality free fonts for Ugaritic (Ugaritic 3.1) and old Phoenician (Phoenician Moabite). Fontspace link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Dawnland
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He created the Chaos font series, which comprises Paradox (1999, trembling hand face), Lamenta (1999, scratchy face), Lamenta X (2011), Lilith (2000, initials made with human figures), Nihil (2011, grungy) and Dissonus (2004, a grunge face inspired by the type treatments of Dave McKean as well as the Manson Anti Christ Superstar-artwork). Dafont link. Other faces include Victualia (brushy), Aeterna (2011, grunge), Paradox X (2011), Pardox Runa (2011, runic), Haakke (2011, a children's hand), Awe (handprinted), Victualia X (2011, a handdrawn brush font), Chaos 1996 (2011, pen illustrations), Massiva GrotesQ (2012), Lore (2012, blackletter: Nokturnia, Nekromantea, Pandemonia, Meep (2013), Blck Phnx (2013, a lava lamp font), Auntie Lee (2013, hand-printed), Uncle Lee (2013, hand-printed). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
De Nada Industries
| Mike Allard (DeNada Industries, Gainesville, FL) is the designer in 1992 of many early shareware fonts. The text provided by DeNada: Founded by a grumpy fellow when some software installation actually required a company name in the registration line. DeNada Industries has grown to include one employee (aka Mike Allard). A producer of typefaces in their early years, De Nada has slowly undeveloped over the years to include the odd Theatre Flyer design for out-rageous amounts of money. Their advertising budget is so severely limited as to preclude your being aware of their existence except by sheer accident. DeNada Industries is one of the slowest growing non-corporate entities in all of North America encompassing a wide variety of activities including: Typeface creation, flyer design, theatrical scenic and lighting design (in conjunction with The Shumway Brothers Moving Company) and a wide variety of other activities that defy specific categorization despite the heroic efforts of our staff. Dafont link. His typefaces:
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Deniart Systems
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List of font packages: Aglab, Alchemy Symbols, American Sign Alphabet, Ancient Writings Vol. 1, Ancient Writings Vol. 2, Angelica, The Astrologer Bundle, Astrologer, Aztec Day Signs, Black Magick, Braille Alphabet, Castles&Shields, Celestial Writing, Celtic Astrologer, Certar, Chinese Zodiac, Coptic Alphabet, Daggers Alphabet, Dendera, Dinosauria, Dragons, Egyptian Deities, Enochian Writing, Egypt. Hieroglyphics Vol 1, Egypt. Hieroglyphics Vol 2, Egypt. Hieroglyphics Vol 3, Egypt. Hieroglyphics Vol 4, Futhark, Greco, Hebrew Basic, Hypnotica, Magi Writing, Magick&Mystic, Malachim Writing, Masonic Writing, Maya Day Names, Maya Month Glyphs, Meso Americano, Meso Deko, Morse Code, Old Persian Cuneiform, Passing the River, Phaistos, Pike's Alphabets, Powers of Marduk, Sanskrit Writing, Semaphore Code, Signals&Signs, Skeleton Alphabet, Sublimina, Tengwanda Gothic, Tengwanda Namarie, Theban Alphabet, The Egyptologist, Tolkien Scripts, WhiteMagick, Skeleton Alphabet, Hebrew Basic, Sanskrit Writing. Note: I cannot find an entry for Jan Koehler at MyFonts, where all Deniart fonts are said to have been made by Denise Koehler. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
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Organized font archive. Many subcategories including Party fonts, Holiday fonts, Balloons, Halloween, Christmas, screen fonts, phonetic fonts, African, Balinese, Bengali, Burmese, Cambodian, Croata-glagolitic, Cyrillic, Ethiopic, Georgian, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Japanese, Javanese, Khmer, Lao, Malayan, Nepali, Nko, runes, Tamil, Vietnamese. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
An original free rune font here, called No. 1 Futhark Rune. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Digital Type Foundry
| Digital Type Foundry is James Banner's (extinct) Seattle-based foundry that produced typefaces such as Angelic, Bamberg-Initials, Bamberg, Burton, Caxton-Initials, Daggers, Enochian, FetteFraktur, Fraktur, Futhark-Gothic, Futhark, Hebrew, Hermetica, Titling-Ornaments-1 and Turkish, around 1991-1992. Some fonts can be downloaded for free at Fontspace. He wrote: I started making fonts in 1988 and still produce work, although as it became more difficult to upload my work or share it using the University of Michigan FTP server, I haven't released much. Most recently, I issued the Geoffroy Tory initial letters as a Type 1 font and separately as EPS files as Freeware. I've produced 20-30 fonts since the DTF Volume Three bundle package came out. The foundry disappeared. The licensing today is unclear. Fontspace link. Old URL. Defunct URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Designer/drawer with Nikolay Dubina (fontographer) of the 3-font family Runic (2001, with Cyrillic versions included). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Russian designer with Nikolay Dubina of the Runic font series (2001). See also here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
D'ni Fonts
| Dnifont (1998): free but strange script rune font by Leon (or: Lee) Lanthier (Cyan Inc). Lanthier also designed Flamboyant Handwriting (1999). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Rune font archive: AngloSaxonRunes, AngloSaxonRunes1, AngloSaxonRunes2, DwarfRunes, DwarfRunes1, DwarfRunes2, GermanicRunes, GermanicRunes1, GermanicRunes2, TengwarNoldor, TengwarNoldor1, TengwarNoldor2, TengwarNoldorA, TengwarQuenya, TengwarQuenya1, TengwarQuenya2, TengwarQuenyaA, TengwarSindarin, TengwarSindarin1, TengwarSindarin2, TengwarSindarinA, all by Daniel Steven Smith. Plus Tolkien (WSI, 1995). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
At Shirley J. Rollinson's site in Portales, New Mexico, an archive with Greek, Coptic, Hebrew and dingbat fonts. A sampling: AWI105 (Amien World International), Alex, Altrussisch, AltrussischBold, AltrussischBoldItalic, AltrussischItalic, American-PresidentsSAMPLE, AngloSaxonRunes, AngloSaxonRunes1, AngloSaxonRunes2, Animals, Animals2, AntoniousJJencom, AntoniousJJencomHollow, AntoniousJJencomThin, AntoniousJJencomWide, AntoniousNormal, AntoniousNormalHollow, AntoniousNormalThin, AntoniousNormalWide, AntoniousOLOverLine, AntoniousOLOverLineHollow, AntoniousOLOverLineThin, AntoniousOLOverLineWide, Athenian, Athletes, BSTGreek, BSTHebrew, Basics, CU_SYMBL, CarrAnimalDingbats, CarrArrowsfilled, CarrArrowsoutline, CarrDingbats2, CarrDings, CelticPatterns, ChayaBold, ChemCycles, ChristianCrosses, ClassifiedDingbats, CommonBulletsNormal, Coptic-Regular, Coptic-Regular, CopticNormal, Dastafarin-Regular, Dingbat-Cats2, DivChem, DwarfRunes, DwarfRunes1, DwarfRunes2, Eggs, FOOD, Fabeldyr-2, Flower-Show, FontForFree, Futura-Thin, Futura-ThinItalic, GermanicRunes, GermanicRunes1, GermanicRunes2, GideonMedium, Grammata, Greek-Regular, Greek-Regular, Greek, GreekOldFace, GreekOldFaceC, HWGreek, Hebpar, Hebrew-Italic, Hebrew-Regular, Inter, Ismini, KirillicaWincyr, Kitchentile, KoineMedium, Koptos-Regular, Korinthus-Italic, Korinthus, Kur2siv-Italic, Lashon-Tov, Lavra-Plain, Linear-B, LudlowDingbats, MENA-1, Martin-Vogel's-Symbols, Medicine, MendelSiddurBold, MendelSiddurMW-Bold, Milan-Greek, MonitorNormal, New-Dingcats, Noam-New-Hebrew, NovaNormal, Novgorod-Plain, Ornaments, Paleo-Hebrew-NormalA, PecanSoncHebrew, Pni2na, Pointers, QuiltersDelight, RK-Meroitic-(Demotic), RK-Meroitic-(Hieroglyphics), RK-Meroitic-Transscript, RK-Persian-Cuneiform, RK-Sanskrit, RK-Ugaritic-Transscript, RK-Ugaritic, Rashi, Roman-Catholic, RuthFancy, SILDoulosIPA, SILGalatia, SILGalatiaBold, SILGalatiaExtras, SILGalatiaExtrasBold, SILManuscriptIPA, SILSophiaIPA, SPAchmim, SPDamascus, SPDoric, SPEdessa, SPEzra, SPIonic, SPTiberian, Sgreek-Fixed, Sgreek-Medium, ShalomOldStyle, ShalomOldStyle, ShalomScript, ShalomStick, ShebrewMedium, States, Statuer, Symbol-Accentuated, SymbolMW-Bold, SymbolMW-BoldItalic, SymbolMW-Italic, SymbolMW-Normal, TLHelpCyrillic, TattooNo1, TattooNo2, TimesNewRomanNavajo, TimesNewRomanNavajoBold, TimesNewRomanNavajoBoldItalic, TimesNewRomanNavajoItalic, TorahSofer, TransliterationItalic, Tzipporah, Ugarit, VintageDingbats, WarnSymbols1, WarnSymbols2, WarnSymbols3, WarnSymbols4, WarnSymbols5, YourKeys, ZapfDingbats, button_by_fanta, fantas-second, hebrew, persische-Keilschrift. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Runes and dingbat fonts that used to be at Warhammer, but have been spruced up: Dwarven-Runes, Eldar-Runes, Imperial-Symbols, Ork-Glyphs (1995). They also made the blackletter font Wagner. The fonts have disappeared, it seems. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
American designer of the artificial language face Old Kicoereian (2005). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dry Heaves Fonts (was: Phil Fonts)
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The list: BlownDroid, Neatified, HappyLarry, IShotTheSheriff, Alien Marksman, EvilCow, Corporate Suit, BadHairDay, Tiptonian, Philbats. Grouped as Scroll fonts from the dead Sea, we find: Habbakuk Scroll (Hebrew), Manual of Discipline (Hebrew), Parthenon (Greek), Ambrosius, Problem Secretary (old typewriter), DeadCircuit, MoldyPillow, Pastorswrit, RadiatedPancake, StolenLlama, Untitled, WetNapkin, Worn Manuscript (1999, grungy blackletter), DustyWombat, NasalDrip, Alphasnail, CarbonatedFont, RaptorAttack (2001), Warped Greased Monkey, Alphasnail (2001), Beth David (1999, Hebrew), Greased Monkey (2001), Lost City (1999, Hebrew), Missing man out (2001), No Brainer (2001), Raptor Kill (2001), Spazbats (2002, dingbats), Speed of Oatmeal (2001), Troglodyte (2001), Polyphemus (2000), Infestation (2000), Hand Drawn Wasabi (2002, katakana font), I Am A Font Designer (2003, scanbats), Neosight (2003), FirstTemple (2003, an old Phoenician lettering font), ScreamingGuitar (2002, guitar dingbats), DHUgaritic (2003), PeskyPhoenicians (2003). Devian tart link. Alternate URL. Fontspace link. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Edith Marold
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Designer who created the artificial language typeface Dreyconicean (2004) and the handwriting face WhateverHand (2004). Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Archive with rune, gothic and medieval fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Eli T. Evans
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Professor Elmer H. Antonsen, Head Department of Linguistics at the University of Illinois, has developed a runic font for the Mac called Vimose (this font is not on his site though). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Three original rune fonts here: 24-futh, 29-futh, AN-futh. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
engwar
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Enrique Mombello
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Eric VanDycke
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Italian archive with old language fonts, alchemy symbol fonts, rune fonts, and dingbats. Contains MarseilleTarotA (1997). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator of the runic face Elder-Futhark (2008, FontStruct). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Free Mac fonts in the EversonMono series for CSX, Celtic, Croatian, Cyrillic, Esperanto, Gaelic, Georgian, Greek, Icelandic, Inuktitut, Ogham, Romanian, Sami, and Turkish. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Every Witch Way
| D. Paul Alecsandri designed the runic fonts Futharc (2001), NewSymbolFont (2000) and Samaritan (2001). We also find the rather complete Unicode truetype font Roman-Unicode (2001), which cover all European, Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, Cyrillic, Thai and Indic languages, and provide kana as well (but not kanji). All parts of unicode covered. See also here. Samaritan (2001) deals with a pre-Samaritan or pre-Babylonian Hebrew. Originally designed for linguistics, the free typeface Chrysanthi Unicode (2001) contains all Unicode Latin characters (including Basic Latin, Latin 1 Supplement, Latin Extended A&B, IPA, and Latin Extended Additional) as well as Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, and everal others. Fontspace link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
The Ewellic script (pronounced yoo-WELL-ik) was invented by Doug Ewell in 1980. It is a monocase, phonemic script, designed primarily to represent the general pronunciation of English without requiring the phonetic precision of systems such as the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
This 200-font archive has Cherokee, MalaguaDemo (and many other Scriptorium fonts), Roar, Battel-Abbey,-8th-c. and Goethe. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fantasy fonts archive. Includes CRL_1 (Greek), several Startrek fonts (such as STCardassian), KeplerAstro and Hermetic (astrology fonts), rune fonts (such as Enochian and Dethek-Dwarvish-FR), and Tim Gathercole's Tencton. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Felipe Navarro
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Feòrag NìcBhrìde
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Feorag's Place
| Nice designs by Feòrag NìcBhrìde from Edinburgh, Scotland. Her Mac TrueType and PostScript fonts are mostly reproductions of historic type. Styl, Styl Round, Astradyne and DaySquareCut are futurist in inspiration. Chapbook and Chapbook Italic are based on 17th century type and Vespasian is taken from a late 7th century manuscript. Symbats and Orkney Runes are of particular interest to occultists. Flgheadh, my first shareware font, makes the creation of knotwork rows as easy as typing three characters which happen to be next to one another on the keyboard. Viking Runes from the Orkney Isles, Taisean (2010, angular uncial), Accelerando (2009, nice simple techno face), Day Square Cut (1997; based on lettering designed by Lewis Day, some time around 1900), Cianán (Mac type 1 font based on an old Irish manuscript, 1998), Astradyne (based on the font used on Ultravox's Vienna LP from 1980), Symbats (1997-2008, a Pagan dingbats font), Innsmouth Plain (2011, handprinted), Skelett (2011, blackletter). Dafont link. Older URL for her free stuff. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Ffenoc is a language developed by Josef Jahn and Franz Ivancsich in 1998. Ffenoc consists of a set of substitute characters as well as a whole new language complete with vocabulary, grammar and syntax. Free font Ffenoc (SDT Austria). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
About 120 fonts here, including some Tolkien fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fixedsys
| Free truetype fonts: Tai Le Valentinum (for the Tai Le script used in China, Burma and Laos), Valentine Arabic, the faux pixel font Sounds of Apathy, and the unicode faux pixel font Fixedsys Excelsior 2.0 (2007). The latter covers Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Armenian, Tamil, Hylian, N'Ko, Ethiopic, blackletter, Dehong Dai, Pahawh Hmong, Thaan, Arabic, Thai, Ogham, runic, and IPA. All fonts made by Darien Valentine in 2004. See also here. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
FontStructor specializing in rune simulation typfaces. He made Viking Runes (2012) in styles called Younger, Middle, and Elder. He writes: VIKING is a false-historical font evolving from Elder Futhark Runes. This runic typeface is based upon the ancient Germanic symbols later adapted by the Goths, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, The Third Reich, and within Fantasy genera, depicted as Dwarven Runes. ELDER VIKING is almost an exact interpretation of Elder Futhark plus a few extra characters corresponding as a best fit to the basic 26 upper-case Latin characters. MIDDLE VIKING is the second generation evolution Rune based upon Elder Futhark. Designed as a semi-cryptic, visually interesting type but intended to be almost-readable as a Latin equivalent (unlike ELDER VIKING), MIDDLE VIKING contains numeric runes and basic punctuation. YOUNGER VIKING is the third generation rune type which is a fully modern interpretation of Elder Futhark. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Archive specializing in fantasy and medieval fonts. Nice presentation! Has a special Celtic font archive. Mac, PC. Among the Celtic fonts: Viking, Stonecross, Samedi, Ondine, Noel, King Arthur, and Gaeilge. Wonderful page. Check also the page on rune fonts and Gothic fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Font Monkey
| Font Monkey (P.D. Magnus) offers these free fonts: 4fun_lib (LED font), 4fun_str, Fearth, Gomo (oriental look), HSRunesAlethic, HSRunesSimple, Ambages (Mayan look lettering), DecoCard, Memo2Self (handwriting). Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Fontgrube AH
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Dafont link. Abstract Fonts link. Klingspor link. Fontspace link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Fonts at the Enochian Coffee House
| Free Enochian trueType font by Jerry Schueler: Schuelers_Enochian. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Dino Manzella's draft on a book entitled Forgotten Scripts: a Book of Runes. Fantastic pages in all respects! Many fonts can be downloaded. Includes Academiury-ITV (Georgian, by Alexander&Temuri Imnaishvili), Rashi, Alex and ChayaBold (by Aaron Schmiedel), Angelic and Enochian (by Digital Type Foundry), several rune fonts by Dan Smith, Beth-Luis-Fearn and Beth-Luis-Nion (by Curtis Clark), Cherokee (by Joseph LoCicero), Moonrune (Morton Bek, 1995), Eshmoon (by Salim G. Khalaf, Family Health International), Glagoljica UGL and Glagoljica OBL (old Croatian; by Zox), RK Meroitic, RK Sanskrit, RK Ugaritic, Mendel Siddur, Nug-Soth (by Daniel U. Thibault), Tzipporah and RuthFancy (by AFS Ltd), and RNIB Braille. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Danish rune font archive. Has Allan Daugaards Runefont, Grxlheim Runefont, Brynjolfson Runefont. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Computer science student at the University of Hamburg, and supporter of open source code software. Creator of the Open Font Library fonts Tomson Talks (2008, comic lettering), Block Stencil (2008), Far Side (2008, sci-fi) and Futhaark hnias (2008, runes), Tomson Talks (2010, handprinted). Aka Skotan. Dark End is a hand-coded SVG font---check the source code to see what can be done with so little! Devian tart link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Frantisek Storm
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Frederico Antunes
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Freyja
| At this site, we can download two rune fonts, Rune PC (1999, Gosei Ranchiki) and Trondheim (1988, Bradley Poulson). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Rune font archive zipped up: ElderFutharkVer11, gothic-1, IPAPhonBoldItalic, IPAPhonBold, IPAPhonItalic, IPAPhonRoman, BritannianRunes, AngloSaxonRunes1, AngloSaxonRunes2, AngloSaxonRunes, Anglo-Saxon,-8th-c., GermanicRunes1, GermanicRunes2, GermanicRunes, Hnias, Junicode-Bold, Junicode-BoldItalic, Junicode-Italic, Junicode-Regular, OlofR-Viking-16-characters, Runar-Viking-16-characters. Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of the rune font Becker-Fraktur (1999), which can be found here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Archive with rune fonts, gothic (dark) fonts, medieval fonts, Startrek fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Five megabytes worth of truetype fonts in about 20 zip files. A sampling: MatrixTall (Emigre, 1990), MegadethCryptic (Shane McFee, 1998), Marydale (Three Islands Press, 1995), Malkavian (Frank D. Mascarello III, 1998), GoudyCatalogueBT-Regular, Gilligans Island (Mark Riddle, 1995), Brady Bunch (Adam Nerland, 1998), BlackAdderII (Bruce Marx, 1991), and many Tolkien/runes fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Gábor Hosszú
| Beautiful Hungarian rune fonts by Gábor Hosszú: RovasFS, RovasFS, RovasFSJB, RovasFSJB, RovasMA, RovasMA, RovasMAJB, RovasMAJB, RovasSada, RovasSadaJB, RovasSumJB, RovasSumer, RovasSzabvany, RovasSzabvany, RovasSzabvanyJB, RovasSzabvanyJB, RovasV1, RovasV1, RovasV1JB, RovasV1JB, Csenge. See also here. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Gábor Hosszú
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Gabriel Martinez Meave
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Gary Munch
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Gaspar Sinai
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Creator of the runic face Futhark Adapted (2011, OFL). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Giedi Prime Fonts (was: Reflex Point Fonts)
| Science fiction and fantasy fonts. There are archived fonts, as well as Jim Sorenson's own creations: Know Future, based on the Zik Zak corporate Logo (Max Headroom), Zentraedi and Tiresian, Gargish Runes and Ophidian Runes, Rylodian from The Last Starfighter, and fonts based on the writing in ID4 and Predator. There is also a font based on the numerals of the AVIAN/MYRMICAT races from Rama. Finally, look for Ancient Autobot, from Transformers, and two Decepticon fonts. Also has a small font archive. A Babylon 5 subpage, and a StarTrek subpage, with 1.1MB mass download option. Fontspace link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Rune archive. Has Runar Viking, OlofR Viking, Corel's Viking, Viking Medium and about ten other truetype fonts. Has Celtic Tattoo, Celtic Border and Celtic Frames. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Self-proclaimed mad scientist, concept artist, illustrator and graphic artist from Burträsk, Sweden (b. 1982). Creator of the rune font Theban Alphabet (2008) and Old Norse Runes (or: Urnordiska Runor) (2008). On behalf of Ba'al Graphics, he made the blackletter face Scaenarium Unus (2008). He also created the dripping blood typeface Terror Production (2008). Alternate URL. Devian Tart site. Old home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fontstructor who made Medieval Runes (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Golden Dawn Research Center
| Links to rune fonts, medieval fonts, and fonts for alchemy and astrology. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Gosei Ranchiki
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Cirdan's rune font archive with mainly (exclusively?) Dan Smith fonts for Tengwar and some runes. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Grølheims Rune side
| Danish rune site. The following free rune fonts by Morten Grølsted are available: Brynjolfson, Grolheim16, Grolheim24, GrolheimAS, GrolheimHal, GrolheimLim, GrolheimStung, GrolheimVal. These fonts also have many Viking dingbats. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Swedish designer of Modern Runic (2013). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Guincho, 1421
| Free original TrueType fonts: Ugarit, Cherokee Arial, ISO 3166-2, Sulawesi (Buginese), and Vexillogical Symbols. By Portugal's António Martins. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Small rune font archive. Carries Skaven (1997, Jim Sorenson). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hanoded
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In 2011, he went partially commercial via MyFonts. His typefaces became more diversified and are quite stunning at times:
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Astro-SemiBold, Astro, Elder-Futhark, Moon-Phases, hebrew. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Harn
| Free fonts by Amir El Habashy: Harn Lakise (runes, 1995), HarnRunicNormal (1995), HarnSymbols (beautiful stamp-like dingbats, 1995). His company seems to be called Synthetic Reality, Inc. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Harold Lohner
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Harold's Fonts
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Link at Dafont. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Harri Perälä from Finland created this gorgeous connected handwriting font, Tengwar Cursive TrueType Font v0.95. Free. Tengwar font tutorial. See also here. See also here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Harry C. Pears
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The file fonty.zip is an archive with these rune fonts: TengwarNoldor1, TengwarNoldor2, TengwarNoldor, TengwarNoldorA, TengwarParmaite, TengwarQuenya1, TengwarQuenya2, TengwarQuenya, TengwarQuenyaA, TengwarCursive. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Medium-sized rune and gothic font archive. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
New Jersey native who lives in San Francisco. He states: "Over the years I've had the good fortune to be very involved with photolettering and type design. In the 1980's I set headlines, letter by letter by letter, on a VGC Typositor at Phil's Photolettering in Washington DC. The desktop computer quickly destroyed that entire industry, and that is how I became involved with computer graphics. In the early 1990s, I designed type for FontBank, and consulted for several other type companies, including Microsoft and Galoob Toys. It's nearly impossible to make a living in type design these days, as the industry was basically done in by a combination of legal precedents and rampant piracy. Having worked on "conventional" / Wester / Roman fonts for so long, I've acquired a preference for unusual or obscure fonts or alphabets. I am always available for type design work or consulting." His designs (not downloadable) include Coptic Chelt, Fruthrak Sans, Ojibway Futurae, Cyrillic-Helv-Flash-8pt, KTR-katakana10, Celestia, Daggers, Enochian Times and Nugsoth. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Herman Miller made several typefaces for Kolagian languages (runes): Kisuna, MizarianUni, OlaeUni, ZireenUni, CispaNormal, OlaetyanNormal, Thryomanes, Zirinka (font used for Zireen languages including Zírí:nká and Zharranh), Lhoerr (font used for Jarrda and Jaghri), Pintek (Braille-type font), Velika, Minza, Lindiga, Teamouse VS, Tirelat (2001), Ludireo, Tilya, Czirehlat. TIPANormal, ThrIPANormal and ThrSAMPANormal are fonts designed for phonetics. Livagian (2003) has a reasonable character set. TeamouseLX, TeamouseVS, TeamouseVS (all 2001) are Miller's versions of Times Roman. He also made the unicode font Thryomanes (fully accented Times, with Greek, Latin, Celtic/uncial and Cyrillic). FTP source. Direct link. Older alternate URL. Fontspace link. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A free hand-drawn runes font, HeroQuest Core Runes (2002, Issaries, Inc). Other fonts (not downloadable): Orlanth Runes, Ernalda Runes, Storm Tribe Runes. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator of the free rune font Ancient Runes (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hosszú Gábor
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Hubertian Maps
| Designer of the artificial language faces WF Dvärg (2002) and WF Havet (2002). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Omniglot's page on Hungarian runes. I quote: Hungarian runes (Székely Rovásírás) are are thought to have descended from the Turkic script (Kök Turki) used in Central Asia, though some scholars believe the Hungarian runes pre-date the Turkic script. They were used by the Székler Magyars in Hungary before István, the first Christian king of Hungary, ordered all pre-Christian writings to be destroyed. In remote parts of Transylvania however, the runes were still used up until the 1850s. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Iconian Fonts
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Sascha Krasny's archive of cuneiform, adventure, and archaic fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Incantation
| Incantation in Highland Park, CA, sells the fonts of Pei-Ti Ying, such as the runic font Incantation Runic (2002). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
German designer of the experimental typefaces Funke and Runic in 2010. Another URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
40 medieval and rune truetype fonts in this archive. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Issaries Inc publishes the free HeroQuest Core Runes font (2002). Not yet finished or not downloadable are Ornalth Runes, Erlanda Runes and Storm Tribe Runes. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Norwegian type designer who created these fonts:
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James Banner
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Designer of DTF Volume 3 (has runes and Hebrew). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fontspace link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
FontStructor who made Anglo Saxon Runes (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jan Koehler
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Jason Biggs (Kurai Studios, Florida) is the designer (b. 1985) of 3Dot (2004) and Anchrish Runes (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
FontSructor who made the runic fonts Anglo-Saxon Runes Formal and Anglo-Saxon Runes Informal in 2012, and Dwarvish Alphabet in 2011. His pixel faces include Times New Greek (2011), and Times New Greek 2 (2012). He created Mach I Speed (2012) and Icelandic Runes Formal (2012, the runes used in the cryptogram in Jules Verne's A Journey to the Center of the Earth). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Jeff Anderson
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Designer of the rune font Elder Futhark (1998). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jennifer Diane Reitz
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Jerry Schueler
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Designer of the free Mac font RQRoughRunes, a carved-looking version of the Theyalan runes. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jim Sorenson
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Jobst-Hartmut Lueddecke
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Swede Johan Nordlander's runic font pack. Nice original designs. Demos available, but the fonts must be ordered. All formats (type 1, truetype, Mac and PC). Johan says: "I have been developing these runic fonts since 1991 in close collaboration with one of the world's foremost experts on Old English runes, Professor Bengt Odenstedt. " Fonts: Old Norse, Old English, Danish, Short-Twig, Staveless runes, Gothic runes, Scientific runes. Plus lots of references on runes! [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Swedish student at Uppsala University, based in Knutby, who created the Tengwar Annatar family (2004) using metafont and pfaedit (now called FontForge), SV Basic Manual (2004, sans serif monospaced pair of faces), and Tengwar Naive (1997-2004). Dafont link. Another URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Rune font archive containing Angerthas-Moria, Angerthas, Anglo-Saxon-Caps, Beowulf1, Beowulf1Alt, Beth-Luis-Fearn, Beth-Luis-Nion, Dethek-Dwarvish-FR, Elder-Futhark, ElderFutharkVer11, Espruar-ElvishFR, Futharken, GayaZ, Junius-Rough, Junius, JuniusBold, JuniusBoldItalic, JuniusItalic, JuniusModern, JuniusModernBold, JuniusModernBoldItalic, JuniusModernItalic, JuniusSmallCaps, JuniusStandard, JuniusStandardBold, JuniusStandardBoldItalic, JuniusStandardItalic, Moon-Runes, Moon, New, RQ, Runic-Regular, Stonehenge, TengwarGandalfMedium, TengwarQuenya, TengwarSindarin, Times-OldEnglishItalic, Times-OldEnglishRegular, Tolkien-Dwarf-Runes, Ultima-Runes----ALL-CAPS, Ultima-Runes, Viking-Normal, Woolbats. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
John Harrison's rune font archive with some Dan Smith fonts for Tengwar and some runes. Includes the Gaya Z font, and a Futhark font by Jeffrey S. Powell, and Morton Bek's MoonRunes. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Rune font archive: TengwarQuenya, AngloSaxonRunes, AngloSaxonRunes1, AngloSaxonRunes2, DwarfRunes, DwarfRunes1, DwarfRunes2, GermanicRunes, GermanicRunes1, GermanicRunes2, TengwarSindarin. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jonas Eckerman
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Designer of the runes font Thorass (2000). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jordan Greywolf
| Free PC fonts made in 2002 and 2003 by American designer Todd Jordan "Greywolf" Peacock: GreywolfGlyphs (hieroglyph), GreywolfHeater, GreywolfNouveau (art nouveau), GreywolfPaperHeroes01, GreywolfPaperHeroes02, GreywolfPaperHeroes03, GreywolfPaperHeroes04, GreywolfQuirk (curly lettering), GreywolfStarshipFactory01, GreywolfTreasureItems01, IronclawPaperHeroes01, IronclawPaperHeroes02, IronclawPaperHeroes03, IronclawPaperHeroes04, IronclawPaperHeroes05, IronclawScenery1, IronclawStandUps1, IronclawStandUps2, IronclawStandUps3, IronclawStandUps4, IronclawStandUps5, IronclawSymbols, MagicIconsGW, SkavenIconsGW. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Jorgensen Fonts
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MyFonts link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Designer of the free rune font Espruar-ElvishFR (1993). See also here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer (b. Fort Lauderdale, FL, 1965) of a few metafonts such as old uncial and cirth (Tolkien runes), to be found here, and Celtic Knotwork Font. Designer of the metafont Cun (runes, cuneiform). Now software engineer for IBM/Lotus in Ireland. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Josh, aka Simon Hackmaster, is an American flash designer. Web page. Creator of the artificial language font Zok (2007). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Josh Thomas
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Juan-José Marcos García
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Julian Bradfield
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Keith Bates
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FontStructor who made the runic face Angerthas Kevinus (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Kimera Type (was: Diseño Kimera)
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Meave.org deals with illustrations and other occult arts. Behance link. Speaker at ATypI 2009 in Mexico City. Interview. Some of his early faces were published at Tiypo. Diseño Kimera has made numerous custom fonts for Mexican clients. His typefaces:
Klingspor link. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Kojima 2087
| Josh Thomas (Kojima 2087) designed the artificial language face Naamu (2005). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
KoNuS
| Chilean Felipe Navarro (KoNuS) is the designer of Harry Potter (2002), the rune font Tolkien (2001), graffiti style fonts Yahoo (2002) and MatrixCode (2003) and of the old typewriter font Counter-Strike (2003). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
This Russian archive has Cyrillic, CyrillicBold, CyrillicNormal-Italic, CyrillicBold-Italic, Anarchy-Normal, BluejackURWT-Ligh, BluejackURWT-Medi, BluejackURWT-Bold, BluejackURWT-ExtrBold, BluejackURWT-LighItal, DisneyPark, DSBrushes-Normal, QuakeCyr, Runic, RunicAlt, RunicAltNo, as well as Neville Brody's Harlem family. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Writing system used by Turkic-speaking peoples in Central Asia from the 6th to the 8th century AD. It is sometimes called Kök Turki runes because of the resemblance of its letter forms to those of the (Germanic) runic alphabet. The script occurred in two forms, monumental and cursive, and was written either vertically downward or horizontally from right to left. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
K-Type
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Commercial faces:
His free fonts are here:
Custom / corporate typefaces: With Liverpool-based art director Liz Harry, Bates created a personalized font, loosely based on Coco Sumner's handwritten capitals, for the band I Blame Coco. Medium and Semibold weights of Gill New Antique were commissioned by LPK Design Agency. Stepping Hill Hospital and Bates created Dials, a pictorial font to help hospital managers input data about improvements. A custom font was designed for Bolton Strategic Economic Partnership. |
One 720K file fonts.zip with fonts such as Avalon Quest (Swfte), Common Tongue (David Bale), Espruar (Joseph DuBois), Hunter (Hunter Engineering), Hunter Wingdings; RUNEnglish, Anglo-Saxon runes, Dwarf runes, Germanic runes, Tengwar Sindarin, and Quenya (all by Daniel S. Smith). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Lars Bergquist
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Lars Törnqvist
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Designer of Runes Regular, or at least I think so. It is unclear. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Québec City-based creator of the octagonal font Vegesignes (2009, FontStruct). This font also appeared in 2010 at Open Font Library. It consists of almost 3,000 glyphs. The language coverage is quite large: Afrikaans, Arabic, Archaic Greek Letters, Armenian, Baltic, Basic Cyrillic, Basic Greek, Basic Latin, Bengali, Catalan, Central European, Cherokee, Devanagari, Dutch, Euro, Farsi, Georgian, Gujarati, Hanunó'o, Hebrew, Igbo Onwu, IPA, Kannada, Kazakh, Lao, Malayalam, Myanmar, New Tai Lue, N'Ko, Ogham, Oriya, Pashto, Pinyin, Polytonic Greek, Romanian, Runic, Sindhi, Syriac, Tai Le, Tai Tham (Lanna), Telugu, Thaana, Thai, Tibetan, Turkish, Uighur, Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics, Urdu, Vietnamese, Western European. Dafont link. Fontspace link. Aka Leaurend-Lavie-Hyppere (Laval) Chabon and as Joseph Rosaire Laval Frandey Leaurend Lavie Hyper Chabom. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Lawrence Lo
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Britannian Runes (Norwick) and three DwarfRunes fonts by Daniel Smith. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Brazilian type designer who studied at UFPE in Recife. Aka "Buggy". He made Cordel (1997), the bitmap font Disquete, Oxe, Palm, Stone (a rune face), Ferro de Boi and Regua at Tipos do aCaso. He created the Manguebat dingat series there, together with some others. Armoribat 1 (codesigned with Gustavo Gusmao) and Armoribat 2 (codesigned with Matheus Barbosa) won awards at Tipos Latinos 2008. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Categorized archive: historical, script, bizarre, Runes, Gothic, symbols, title. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Swedish type designer, calligrapher and graphic designer, b. 1939, who lives in Skane, Denmark. He created RunaSerif (for Miles, 1995: inspired by the forms of ancient Viking runes, this face won the Nordic Typeface Competition in Copenhagen), Crane (1995, Agfa), Renasci (1997, based on old Danish inscriptions, mainly in churches), ZiP (Agfa Creative Alliance), and Hansson Stencil (Mecanorma). CV (in Swedish). | |
Leon Lanthier
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J.-C. Loubet del Bayle sketches the development of Tolkien's runic writing systems, Tengwar and Cirth. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Levia (Michael M) designed the rough artificial language / runic face Leviathan Big (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
2009 creations: Haemophobe (pixel), Star Wreck, Mouthcaster (a bilined face based on the lettering on the front of the 1978 edition of the Scoutmaster's Handbook), Pasta (white on black), Medical Station Alpha (techno), Disco Stud (Chrome, Solid, Chrome Oblique, Solid Oblique), Affix, Infix (experimental and minimalist), Pinball Blizzard, Tears in Rain (a simplistic textura), Five Minute Hair Colour (slab serif), Seg Sixteen (LED face), Trajedy (pixel), Nobody 8 Italic (pixel), Home Sweet Home (a cross-stitch font), Wotan, Tiki Deaky, Writetyper, Chromatose (shadow family), Chocobot (an octagonal family containing Dark, Stacked (multilined), Milk, White), Big Fat (Shaded, Vibrate, Solid). 2010 creations: Fungal Sharp, Fungal Rounded (described by himself as a unicase stovepipe sans), Elliptical Lasso (Western ornamental caps), Astral Projection (a dot matrix face that updates Astra, a Letraset font designed by François Robert and Natacha Falda in 1973), Brick-block tops (3d effect), Knots, Spacerock (an extensive arc-based geometric family), Telephone (counterless), Pixular, StarWreck the Next Generation, Hockey Club, Brick-Block Tops, Bubblemania, Ziabelle Remix (outline, 3d, shaded), Hextone, Falcone (robotic face), but I didn't Trap the Deputy (Egyptian), Dinosaur Gothic. Fonts from 2011: Apé'ritif (bilined), Csillagok (a futuristic face based on a hungarian Star Wars poster), Valhalla (faux runic), Birodalom, Haboruja, Piezo, Felix (black art deco face). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Find the rune fonts Moon-Runes, TengwarQuenya, Tolkien, TengwarGandalfRoman and the pixel fonts Acknowledge TT (Aenigma) and 04b_03b. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Logos Bible Software
| Company located in Bellingham, WA, which is involved in ancient languages. Eli Evans developed some fonts for Ugaritic, a Semitic language written in cuneiform, in use around 1300 bc in the city of Ugarit in modern Syria. The fonts, called Zebel Open, are part of a commercial Ugaritic package. Here we learn that he designed Gotisch (2003) with letters representing the Gothic alphabet, as written by Wulfila and presumably as used by the Goths (pre-uncial). This was followed by a bold version, Gothic 1. He also created the runes font Futhorc. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Lord Kyl's Medieval and Fantasy Fonts
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Luke Harbinson (b. 1985, U.K.) is the designer of the rune font Matrix Code Font (2002). Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
MacCampus
| Europe's largest independent foreign language font developer for the Macintosh, which is directed by Sebastian Kempgen from Germany. Fonts include: Western Languages (CoreFont series), Eastern Europe (CE-Font series), Cyrillic (Professional series: RomanCyrillic Pro, Ladoga Pro etc. (text fonts); DEsign fonts: Faktor, Inessa Cyr etc. (headline, handwriting); Olliffe Fonts: Batumi, Schechtel, Russian Open (display type; example: Mashinka); Scientific Cyrillic (includes old orthography, accents, old characters); Old Church Slavonic (Cyrillic and Glagolitic, Square and Round); Non-Slavic Cyrillic: Roman CyrTurk, Ladoga CyrTurk), Greek (Modern Greek and Classical Greek (Agora and Parmenides)), Icelandic&Faeroese (PolarFont series), Irish&Welsh (Gaelic, Celtic in the CeltoFont series), Romanian (DacoFont series), Turkish (TurkoFont series), BalkanFont series (Hungarian, Romanian, Turkish, Azerbaijani, Maltese), Basque (BaskoFont series), Saami (SamoFont series), Georgian, Armenian, Coptic (such as the Pachomius font), Cuneiform, Sabean, SinoFont series for Vietnamese plus more or Chinese (Pinyin) transliteration, phonetic Fonts (Trubetzkoy&Phonetica), Transliteration Fonts. Some of its fonts (like Campus Ten/Twelve and Magister Book) are now sold through Agfa/Monotype. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Manfred Klein
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Manfred Klein
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Manfred Klein
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Manfred Klein's Fonteria
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Marc Gascoigne
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Graphic designer and architect in Wroclaw, Poland, who runs Camfora Design Studio. He seems to have created two typefaces in the family Tengwar New (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Czech designer (b. 1975) who lives in Olomouc. He made the runic font HlaholiceBold (2001). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Måns Björkman
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Designer of a public domain Unicode font in 2005 called MPH 2B Damase. It can be found here. Created by Mark Williamson, it covers Armenian, Cherokee, Coptic (Bohairic subset), Cypriot Syllabary, Cyrillic (Russian and other Slavic languages), Deseret, Georgian (Asomtavruli and Nuskhuri but no Mkhedruli), Glagolitic, Gothic, Greek (including Coptic characters), Hebrew, Latin, Limbu, Linear B (partial coverage of ideograms and syllabary), Old Italic, Old Persian cuneiform, Osmanya, Phoenician, Shavian, Syloti Nagri (no conjuncts), Tai Le (no combining tone marks), Thaana, Tifinagh, Ugaritic, Vietnamese. See also here. The font is used by the popular Debian Linux software. Mark Williamson also designed a free fonts for Osmanya, Ugaritic and Shavian called Andagii (2003). His Penuturesu covers Linear B. Dafont link. See also here. Old URL. Fontsy link. He contributed to the GNU Freefont project, which used these ranges:
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German designer who lives in Huerth. Creator of the runic Stargate font High Antarian (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
American creator (b. 1987) of the artificial langauge typeface Elabeth Script (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Mathieu Klomp
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Matt Masanko
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Matt Mesanko
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American designer (b. 1984) of Nefraka Print (2006, runes for an artificial language). Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in the FUSE 13 collection of the rune font Babel. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Professor at IDG Wien (Indogermanistik Wien) of the Instituts für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Wien. She designed Aal, Aal-Bold, Aal-BoldKursiv, Aal-Kursiv, AalTimes, AalTimesNewRoman-Kursiv, Aatoch, AatochFett, Aatoch-BoldKursiv, AatochKursiv, Aaron, Aaron-Bold, Aaron-BoldKursiv, AaronKursiv, AaronPunkt, AaronPunkt-Kursiv, Agriech (based on a typeface of Peter J. Gentry&Andrew M. Fountain, 1993), Agriech-Kursiv, Amairgin, Amairgin-Bold, Amairgin-BoldKursiv, Amairgin-Kursiv, AmairginTimes, AmairginTimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT, Aspgriech, Aspgriech-Kursiv, and Keltiberisch (2001, a runes font). No downloads. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
American designer who created the pictograph font PROTObyte (2004), which contains dingbats from Linear B, Indus Valley Script, Snake River, Cretan, Elamite, Iberian and Coptic. He also made Glitch Millennium Serif (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Metafont Quellen
| Jobst-Hartmut Lueddecke's page has metafont sources for Suetterlin (by B. Ludewig), old Irish Uncial (by Jo Jaquinta), Italic (Cancellaresca corsiva) of Ludovico degli Arrighi, called Vicentino (Italy, early 16. century) by Willibald Kraml, yfrak, yinit, ygoth, yswab and cmfrak, Fraktur fonts by Yannis Haralambous. Also, the rune fonts bard (Celtic Bard Runes by Jobst-Hartmut Lueddecke), futhark (by Micaela Pantke and Sigrid Juckel), srune (by Jobst-Hartmut Lueddecke), the fantasy fonts cirth (dwarven runes created by J.R.R.Tolkien, by Jo Jaquinta), engwar (by Michael Urban), goblin (by Alan M. Stanier), tengwar (elven runes created by J.R.R.Tolkien, by Michael Urban), Jörg Knappen's EC fonts, hksym (a dingbat font by Hartmut Kennhöfer and Jobst-Hartmut Lueddecke), moonphases (dingbats by Stanislav Brabec, and wasy (dingbats by Roland Waldi). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Designer of Riven (1998). This font was singled out by the typophiles as a problematic pirate font---even the name of its parent, Perpetua, was left inside the font file. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Michael S. Elliott made the free Tolkien Tengwar font, and TengwarGandalfRoman (1993). Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Michael Urban
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Polish designer of the Tolkien-inspired font TengwarFormal11 (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Mike Allard
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Mind Kinetics
| Shigeru Hasegawa (Mind Kinetics) designed these free fonts: Kollong-Bold, Kollong-Regular (2002, runic), Atle-D (runic), futuu3-kana (kana pixel face), Ninepoint (pixel face), Razor-Edge-Alphabet (pixel face), Razor-Edge-Katakana, SteelArm (kana pixel face). Earlier versions of his pages were called Tabledesign and SITEUNTITLED. He also had Slantica, Enkin (techno), and Squarepuller (techno-kana) back then. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Nicely categorized 300+ font archive. In French. Includes mediaeval fonts (and initial caps). PC and Mac. Also Celtic archive, a rune archive, a symbol font archive, a foreign font archive, and a handwriting font archive. The general theme of the site is role playing games. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Original rune fonts: Coelbren is based on a Gaelic set of runes, and a Futhark font. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
British youngster, b. 1992, who created Digimon Digicode (2009), an artificial or coded language font. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Morten Bek
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Morten Grølsted
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MunchFonts
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Creator of the runic face Munk Black (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Music of the Ancient Near East
| Richard Dumbrill's page. Find a free font Akkadian-1, and a commercial family, RD-Akkadian (cuneiform signs). Plus RD-Times Scholar (commercial). Furthermore, custom font design for Syriac, Ugaritic, Hittite cuneiforms, South Arabian, Phoenician. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
My Handwritings
| Hungarian type designer Roland Huse (b. 1980) sells his fonts through My Handwritings (Kazincbarcika, Hungary). His first font is Zuider Postduif (2012, an informal type family). Florida Shark (2012) is a free Death Metal or tattoo version of one of his commercial fonts. Tamiami (2012) is a headline typeface. Granny's Handwriting (2012), Script Demolition (2012), Sharon Lipschutz's Handwriting (2012), Isa Por Es Homou (2012) and Kinga's Handwriting (2012) are hand-printed typefaces. Napping Cat (2012) and Cubic Sub (2012) are angularly designed, while Mgla (2012) is round and plump. Greek Stone (2012) is a squarish Greek simulation face. On The Road (2012) is a textured typeface. Whirly Wood (2012), Hargita (2012, inspired by ancient Hungarian runes), Dreamcatcher (2012) and Bee Ridge Vantage (2012: see also Bee Ridge) are grunge typefaces. Individigital (2012, +Black, +Thin) is a techno set of typefaces. Typefaces from 2013: Cool Weekdays, Yellow Peas Light (clean thin monoline sans), Back To The Future 4, Yellow Peas Demo (hairline sans), Yellow Peas Bold, Pagan Winter (bilined), Beer Money (brush face), Poor Weekdays (+Serif), Hun Legion (inspired by ancient Hungarian runes), Freehand Roman, Esthajnal (inspired by ancient Hungarian runes), Buffalo Chicken (a connected script), Telihold. Fontspace link. Dafont link. Old URL. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Fontspace link. Dafont link. Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
100-font archive with many Cyrillicized fonts. Has many rune fonts, and Arabic simulation fonts such as Arabian and Caliph (Scriptorium). ArabianNormalCyr is a Cyrillic version, copyright Naraca (2000). Other goodies: SkazkaForSerge (Cyrillic version of Arnold Boecklin, by Yuri A. Lyamin), Tzimizce Cyr (Necropolis, 2000). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Brazilian site with Angerthas, TengwarQuenya1, TengwarQuenya2, TengwarQuenya, AngloSaxonRunes, AngloSaxonRunes1, AngloSaxonRunes2, DwarfRunes, DwarfRunes1, DwarfRunes2, Tolkien. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Neale Davidson
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Danish art director. Creator of Casa Madero (2012, a logotype for the winery), Douwe Egberts (2012), FF Berliner (2012, octagonal constructivist typeface), and F-Rune (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of the Mac font Drow Runes based on the Dark Elven Runes created by TSR for use with AD&D. And of R'zal'Shii, based on the Drakmarian language which was created by Nitehawk Jarrett back in 1989. Based in Hazleton, PA. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Rune and Celtic font archive: Anglo-Saxon,-8th-c., Anglo-Saxon-Caps, AngloSaxonRunes, AngloSaxonRunes1, AngloSaxonRunes2, AvalonQuestRegularSwfte, Becke-rFraktur-Regular, Beowulf1, Beowulf1Alt, Bunchlo, CeltGael, CelticFrames, CelticHand, CelticPatterns, CelticmdDecorativeWDropCaps, DSCelticBorder1, DiabloHeavy, DragonOrder, DwarfRunes, DwarfRunes1, DwarfRunes2, Folkard, Futhark-(jung), Futhark-Dänisch, Futhark-angelsächsisch-(um-88), Futhark-anglofriesisch,-Themse, Futhark-schwed.-norweg.2, Futhark-schwedisch-norwegisch, Futhark1-dän.-ab-9.Jahrh., Gaelach, GermanicRunes, GermanicRunes1, GermanicRunes2, Hälsingland-(12.Jahrh.), KeltNormal, Parchment-Regular, Pi-RhoRunestones, RUNEnglish1, RUNEnglish2, Stonecross, Stonehenge, Tuamach-Regular, Viking-Normal. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
This is an archive of 20 fonts including BloodFeast, BloodOfDracula, Brrrrr-Regular, CSLUncialUSA, CelticBold, CelticmdDecorativeWDropCaps, CommonTongue, FetteFraktur, Heidelberg-Normal, RUNEnglish1, RUNEnglish2, GermanicRunes, SchwabenAlt-Bold, Sherwood-Regular, Suetterlin, WindsorDemi.fog, AuntJudy, DalelandsNormal, Dethek, Espruar-ElvishFR, MysticEtchingsNormal, Runic-Regular, Thorass (Catherine Keene). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The frfonts.zip file has AuntJudy (Judith Sutcliffe, 1992), BloodFeast, BloodOfDracula, Brrrrr-Regular, CSLUncialUSA, CelticBold, CelticmdDecorativeWDropCaps, CommonTongue (David Bale, 1995), DalelandsNormal, Dethek (David Bale, 1994), Espruar-ElvishFR, FetteFraktur, Heidelberg-Normal, MysticEtchingsNormal, RUNEnglish1, RUNEnglish2, GermanicRunes, Runic-Regular, SchwabenAlt-Bold, Sherwood-Regular, Suetterlin, Thorass. Many of these fonts are uncial or rune fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Great links page maintained by Reinhard G. Lehmann (Lecturer for Classical Hebrew and Old Aramaic, Johannes-Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz) with links related to Hebrew, old Aramaic, Greek, Coptic, old Syrian, Ugaritic and Phoenician. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Objets Dart
| Refreshing fonts created by Canadian Darren Rigby using High-Logic. The fonts come in truetype format (in 2000): Bayern (fraktur font), Beltane (2002), Brasspounder (2004), Con Jitters (2002, handwriting), Enigmatic, EnigmaticUnicodeRegular, Fitzgerald, GangueOuais (2002), HindsightUnicode (2001, with all European languages, Cyrillic, Armenian, and IPA), HindsightSmallCaps, HindsightRegular, HindsightMonospaceRegular, IntruderAlert, QuicktypeRegular, ThinDime, TorturerUpright, SilverDollar, DontWalkRun, History-Repeating (1999-2000), HistoryHappens, HistoryRepeatingH, HistoryHappens, HistoryRepeatingV, Lemon, Norse-Code (runes), OneEighty, TorturerBound, TorturerCrushed, Daybreaker, Yerevan, Seebreaze, Jareth, Tin Birdhouse, Tin Doghouse, Three-Sixty, Three-Sixty Condensed, Levity (2001, Western font), Gravity, River Avenue, Water Street, Warer Street Detour (unicase), Meridiana, Torquemada, Torquemada Starved, Torquemada Starved Unicode, Radian (2002), All Hooked Up (2002), Brasspounder (2004), Quilljoy (2004). Dafont link. Aka Starving-4 Entertainment. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Odd Einar Haugen of the Department of Scandinavian languages and literature at the University of Bergen, Norway, has interesting pages on rune fonts. He says "The two Rune fonts, Gullskoen and Eggja cover the Viking age and younger Scandinavian Runes (Gullskoen) and the older 24 rune Germanic Futhark + the Anglo Saxon runes (Eggja). Both fonts will be available as Postscript fonts and as TrueType fonts, and both will be available for Apple's Macintosh and for MS Windows." Gullskoen is freeware and available for Mac and Windows (PostScript and TrueType). Now there is also Gullhornet. Direct downloads. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
"The script of some ancient dialects of Central Italy, which are a subdivision of the western group of Indo-European languages spoken in Italy. These dialects included Etruscan, Faliscan, Middle Adriatic, North Picene, Oscan, South Picene, and Umbrian. The Old Italic script dialects show some similarity to Celtic and, to a lesser degree, Germanic." [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Oliver Jovanovic made the free RuneQuest font called RQ (1993). See also here or here or here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Omega Font Labs
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Typefaces: OmegaSwirls (a neat collection of spirals and swashes), Curbature (an earthy outline font), Lyarith (curly font), SpahrtyGirl (1998, a great curly typeface), Shamantics (music-inspired), Doodle Dudes of Doom (funny dingbats), BirthdayBats, Big Ham, Black Shirt Slime Trail, Bazzomba, Big Blocko, Androganamous, 52 Spheroids, Vadim'sHand, Tom'sWriting (nice), Kim'sHandwriting, Jennifer'sHand, Fanny's Treehouse, Chris's Handwriting, Armageddon, Awl Scrawl, Kim'sToons, Max's Handwriting, Frog Mess 1 (by Froggie), and Frog Dings 1 (by Froggie), Halloween Boosta, Blottooo, Border Bats, Death Valley, Runes of Omega, Retrobats, Pittoresk, Runes of the Dragon, Cthulhu Runes, the fantastic DocNimbusBats, SpaceWooziesExtraz, Oriental Patterns, OldTimeAdDings, MonsterMasher (to make a monster font), Monsters of Stone, Garden Dings, DaFunkBrothers, Cultural Icons, Celtic Patterns, Celtic Frames, Cerbature, Callallied, Callaxis, Asian Dings, 52 Sphereoids (very original), gothic hijinx (phenomenal!), Spazzz Caps, Oogie Boogies, XRayTid, XXonXXoff, SwampType, Speedy12, SlapHappy, Kaptain Kurk (OK font!), jaunty, GrungePuddles, Frankendork, Evil Signature, Elevator Buttons, Chewed Straw, Chilly Moe, 4 Star face Font, Amosis Technik, Space Woozies, Schizoid Trout, Halloween Border Bats, Bloody Stump (dripping blood face), BubblyFrog, Cathzulu (+Hollow, +Extraz), Chunk-o-Muffin, Kallamar, Lyarith (curlies!), PsiBorgZ, Purple Burple, and Quasidipitous. Archive at Font-A-Sea. Archive at Mouser Fonts. Alternate URL. And another one. Fontspace link. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
OMGWTF (or: Akumu)
| Free fonts, mostly for artificial languages, by Jeff Anderson (Akumu). These include Aram, Rhaelik, SexyScript, Sketchy-Tirin, Tengwar-Typewriter, Tirin-Hand, Tirin-Script, Tirin-Type. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Omniglot's page on the Orkhon alphabet. I quote: The earliest known examples of writing in any Turkic language were found in the Orkhon river valley in Mongolia in the 19th century. They date from the early 8th century AD and the script in which they are written is known as the Orkhon alphabet. Inscriptions dating from the later 8th century AD in a slight variant of the Orkhon alphabet, known as Yenisei or Siberian runes, have also been found around Yenisei and other parts of Siberia. Because of a superficial resemblance to the Runic alphabet, the alphabet is also known as Orkhon or Turkic runes. This resemblance is probably a result of the writing materials used - most inscriptions are in hard surfaces, such as stone or wood, and curved lines are difficult to inscribe in such surfaces. The Orkhon alphabet is thought to have been derived from or inspired by a non-cursive version of the Sogdian script. By the 9th century AD, the Orkhon and Yenisei alphabets were replaced by the Uighur alphabet, which developed from the cursive version of the Sogdian script. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Illustrator, painter and occasional type designer in Bandhagen, Sweden. He created Futhark, Bent (2010), and Lined (2009). Via MyFonts, one can buy Lined. Klingspor link. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Otani Hideaki
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Designer at FontStruct in 2008 of Elvish Runes (based on the runes seen in Lord of the Rings). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Oyar Mickevics
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P22 Type Foundry
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The fonts are: Industrial Design (an industrial look font based on letters drawn by Joseph Sinel in the 1920s---this font is free!), LTC Jefferson Gothic Obliquie (2005, free), Sinel (free), P22Snowflakes (2003, free), Acropolis Now (1995, a Greek simulation face done with Michael Want), P22 Albers (1995; based on alphabets of Josef Albers made between 1920 and 1933 in the Bauhaus mold), Arts and Crafts (based on lettering of Dard Hunter, early 1900s, as it appeared in Roycroft books), Ambient, Aries (2004, based on Goudy's Aries), Arts and Crafts ornaments, Atomica, Bagaglio, Bauhaus (Bauhaus fonts based on the lettering of Herbert Bayer), Bifur (2004, Richard Kegler, after the 1929 original by Cassandre), Blackout, Cage (based on handwriting and sketches of the American experimental composer John Cage), P22 Casual Script (2011, Richard Kegler, a digitization of letters by sign painter B. Boley, shown in Sign of the Times Magazine), Cezanne (Paul Cezanne's handwriting, and some imagery; made for the Philadelphia Museum of Art), Child's Play, Child's Play Animals, Child's Play Blocks, Constructivist (Soviet style lettering emulating the work of Rodchenko and Popova), Constructivist extras, Czech Modernist (based on the design work of Czech artist Vojtech Preissig in the 20s and 30s), Daddy-o (Daddy-o Beatsville was done in 1998 with Peter Reiling), Daddy-o junkie, Da Vinci, Destijl (1995, after the Dutch DeStijl movement, 1917-1931, with Piet Mondrian inspired dingbats; weights include Extras, Regular and Tall), Dinosaur, Eaglefeather, Escher (based on the lettering and artwork of M.C. Escher), FLLWExhibition, FLLW Terracotta, Folk Art (based on the work of German settlers in Pennsylvania), Il futurismo (after Italian Futurism, 1908-1943), Woodtype (two Tuscan fonts and two dingbats, 2004), Woodcut, Garamouche (2004, +P22 Garamouche Ornaments; all codesigned with James Grieshaber), GD&T, Hieroglyphic, P22 Infestia (1995), Insectile, Kane, Kells (1996, a totally Celtic family, based on the Book of Kells, 9th century; the P22 Kells Round was designed with David Setlik), Koch Signs (astrological, Christian, medieval and runic iconography from Rudolf Koch's The Book of Signs), Larkin (2005, Richard Kegler, 1900-style semi-blackletter), London Underground (Edward Johnston's 1916 typeface, produced in an exclusive arrangement with the London Transport Museum; digitized by Kegler in 1997, and extended to 21 styles in 2007 by him as P22 Underground Pro, which includes Cyrillic and Greek and hairline weights), Pan-Am, Parrish, Platten (Richard Kegler; revised in 2008 by Colin Kahn as P22 Platten Neu; based on lettering found in German fountain pen practice books from the 1920s), Preissig, Prehistoric Pals, Petroglyphs, Rodin / Michelangelo, Stanyan Eros (2003, Richard Kegler), Stanyan Autumn (2004, based on a casual hand lettering text created by Anthony Goldschmidt for the deluxe 1969 edition of the book "...and autumn came" by Rod McKuen; face by Richard Kegler), Vienna, Vienna Round, Vincent (based on the work of Vincent Van Gogh), Way out West. Now also Art Nouveau Bistro, Art Nouveau Cafe and the beautiful ornamental font Art Nouveau Extras (all three by Christina Torre, 2001), the handwriting family Hopper (Edward, Josephine, Sketches, based on the handwriting styles of quintessential American artist Edward Hopper and his wife, Josephine Nivison Hopper, and was produced in conjunction with the Whitney Museum of American Art), Basala (by Hajime Kawakami), Cusp (by James Grieshaber), P22 Dearest (calligraphic, by Christina Torre), Dwiggins (by Richard Kegler), Dyrynk Roman and Italic (2004, Richard Kegler, after work by Czech book artist Karel Dyrynk), Gothic Gothic (by James Grieshaber), La Danse (by Gábor Kóthay;), Mucha (by Christina Torre), Preissig Lino (by Richard Kegler), P22Typewriter (2001, Richard Kegler, a free typewriter font), the William Morris set (Morris Troy, Morris Golden, Morris Ornaments, based up the type used by William Morris in his Kelmscott Press; 2002), Art Deco Extras (2002, Richard Kegler, James Grieshaber and Carima El Behairy), Art Deco Display, the Benjamin Franklin revival font Franklin's Caslon (2006), Dada (2006) and the Art Nouveau font Salon (bu Christina Torre). In 2006, Kegler added Declaration, a font set consisting of a script (after the 1776 declaration of independence), a blackletter, and 56 signatures. Many of the fonts were designed or co-designed by Richard Kegler. International House of Fonts subpage. Lanston subpage (offerings as of 2005: Bodoni Bold, Deepdene, Flash, Fleurons Granjon, Fleurons Garamont, Garamont, Goudy Thirty, Jacobean Initials, Pabst, Spire). In-house fonts made in 2008 include Circled Caps, the Yule family (Regular, Klein Regular, Light Flurries, Heavy, Klein heavy, Heavy Snow, Inline; all have Neuland influences). Kegler / P22 created a 25-set P22 Civilité family in 2009 based on a 1908 publication from Enshedé, the 1978 English translation by Harry Carter, and a 1926 specimen also from Enshedé. P22 Declaration (Script, Signatures, Blackletter, 2009) is based on the lettering used in the 1776 Declaration of Independence. At ATypI 2004 in Prague, Richard spoke about Vojtech Preissig. Speaker at ATypI 2010 in Dublin, where he presented Making Faces: Metal Type in the 21st Century about which he writes: This film has the dual aim of documenting the almost-lost skill of creating metal fonts and of capturing the personality and work process of the late Canadian graphic artist Jim Rimmer (1931-2010). P22 type foundry commissioned Mr. Rimmer to create a new type design (Stern) that became the first-ever simultaneous release of a digital font and hand-set metal font in 2008. At ATypI 2011 in Reykjavik, he will show Making Faces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Links to runes, symbol fonts and dingbat fonts that are relevant to pagans. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Tattoo artist in Florida, b. 1969, whose business is Vicious Ink. He posted 21 free fonts in 2011 at Dafont all at once. Many of these have calligraphic or Celtic influences. There are of course several blackletter and illuminated caps faces, as one would expect in a tattoo parlor. The fonts were all made in 2010: Pauls3-DTribal, PaulsBloodSweat&Tears, PaulsCelticFont1, PaulsCelticFont2, PaulsCelticFont3, PaulsCircusFont (Lombardic), PaulsEstherFont, PaulsFancyScript, PaulsGothicCurls, PaulsGraffitti, PaulsHeartlessFont, PaulsIlluminatedCelticFont, PaulsKanjiFont-Bold (oriental simulation), PaulsPoisonFont-Italic, PaulsRansomNoteFont, PaulsRealCelticRuneFont, PaulsSUPERFont, PaulsSinnerFont, PaulsSouthPacific, PaulsSwirlyGothicFont, PaulsWhimsyFont, Paul's Bloody, Paul's Weight, Paul's California (a fun script). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Brazilian designer of Tengwar v.3, v.4 and v.5 (1994). Alternate URL. See also here. Dafont linbk. Fontspace link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Brazilian creator of Angeloid Runes (2011), a handprinted font based on the Enochian script. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
P.D. Magnus
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Icelandic linguistics professor at the University of Stockholm. Since 1989, he has made fonts for phonetic transcription and fonts for writing out Old Icelandic as it appears in Icelandic manuscripts. He also works with the Árni Magnússon Institute in Iceland, an institute devoted to the preservation and publication of Icelandic manuscript texts. With two other Icelanders, Jörundur Hilmarsson and Sigurdur H. Pálsson, he has made these fonts, which hopefully will soon be available for free download:
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Pei-Ti Ying
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On this page called "The Art of Roleplaying-Games", a zipped file with fonts such as Angerthas, BeeskneesITC, Blaccttf, BernhardFashionBT, BurnOut, Espruar-ElvishFR (by Joseph DuBois), LucidaHandwriting-Italic, Runic-Regular, Morpheus. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Per Baasch Jørgensen
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Per Olof Rizell's free runic fonts Runar and OlofR, truetype for Windows. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
This site has the free Interkosmo rune font, and the Perry Rhodan Standard FS font. For these, and Interkosmo2, see also Armand Wendt's site or here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Pete "The Hutt" Klassen created the "Lord of the Rings" movie logo font, Ringbearer Medium (2002), as well as Aniron (2004), an uncial face that was used in the credits of the same movie. See also here and here and here. There is also a small rune archive. Fontspace link. Alternate URL. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Peter R. Wilson
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Peter Rempel
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Designer who created the pixel grid face z001-rom (2008), Katerina (2010, almost LED face), Kinryu (2010), Kinryu No. 14 (2009), z001-rom_v10.4, Normal (2009, pixel face), Elektrogothic (2008, futuristic), Laurier Test (2009, serifed), Laurier No. 7 (2009, an extensive Unicode face that covers Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, most Indic languages, Thai, Hebrew, Lao, Tibetan, runic, Khmer, and mathematical, chess and other symbols), Kinryu No. 8 Regular (2009, an extension of Laurier towards Japanese), Clucky Duck (2008, rounded), and the double-scratch handwriting face Wild Freak (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Phillip Andrade
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Phoenician Alphabet
| At NC-based Salim George Khalaf's page on ancient Phoenicia, find free truetype fonts (Mac, PC): Nakht Hieroglyphics, Eshmoon (1996; Phoenician runes by Salim himself) and Ugaritic1 (by David Myriad Rosenbaum, El Sobrante, CA). Alternate URL. It has a great tree of language genealogies, placing Phoenician around 1600BC, with as child languages Proto-Arabic (1500BC), Old Hebrew (900BC), Archaic Greek (1000BC), Etruscan/Latin (900BC) and Aramaic (800BC). Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
PR Fonts
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He writes about himself: educated in music composition and visual design. In his family home, there were many wall plaques with German Bible verses, rendered in a variety of gothic and fraktur lettering styles. In the 1980s he discovered the art of calligraphy, first through the speedball lettering textbook, and later by joining the calligraphers Guild of Manitoba. He has studied a variety of lettering styles, but his strongest interest is in the letter styles of the Middle Ages, starting with the German Fraktur styles he knew from childhood, and extending back, into uncials, runic shapes, and the Classical Roman Letter. The Chancery cursive, or Italic hand, which to many people is synonymous with calligraphy, never held much interest for him. He released his first shareware fonts in 1996. In 2010, he went partially commercial. His first pay font is PR Pointers (2010, an arrows font). In 2011, he designed the commercial faces PR Mapping and PR Stars. In 2012, he published PR Arco (arcs for framing curved lines of text, in a style common on Victorian posters and almanac covers) and PR Hydra (a Greek simulation font). Typefaces from 2013 include PR Hearts Take Wing 01, PR Mysticon 01 (star dingbats), PR Pointers 01 (arrows), PR Valknut (Norse god symbolism), PR Scrolls, PR Uncial (1998), PR Dim Sum (brush face), PR Columban (a Celtic uncial, named after Irish monk Columbanus), PR Columbian. MyFonts link. MyFonts foundry link. Klingspor link. Fontsy link. Dafont link. Castles&Crypts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Protoform Project (was: Fontshack)
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Neale Davidson's typefaces:
Dafont link. See also here and here, here, and here. Klingspor link. Abstract Fonts link. Devian Tart link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Archive with fonts for Hebrew, Greek, alchemy, Persian, Sanskrit, Coptic and runes. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
British designer of Dragonscript (2007), a rune font. Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
DSA (Das schwarze Auge) fonts by Ralf D. Renz: Nanduria, Zhayad, and Alchimistische-Symbole and Astrologische-Symbole. Alternate URL. See also here and here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Prolific creator at FontStruct in 2009 of the 3d faces Alphabox, Alphabox Reverse, Alphabox Lite, Alphabox Lite Complete, Alphabox Shadow and Alphabox Basic. He also made RM Playtime (outlined 3d family), Art DECOrated, Single DECOr, Romantic (+Carved, +Carved Shadow), TripleDECOr, New Romantic, SOFA, Mondrianish, Eye Test, Meltdown (grunge), Amesian (American Sign Language), DECO Noir, DECOction, DECOserif (+Bold), DECOoction (+Bold Open), DEChrome, DECOpix, DECOr (a pure art deco face like Levine's Art Lover JNL), DECOThin (+Medium), Scrapheap, Westward (Far West font), Cheese Fondue, Alphabox Reverse (shadow font), AlphaRune, Spaced, Gothicky, Grand Prix, Entrees (alphadings), Compround, Phatzzo (nice!), DECOr8, Gothicky, Gothicky Grey, RM Ginger, RM Albion (blackletter), and Opening (outline face). RM Squarial (2009) is a hairline sans. Its 3d version is RM Squarial 3D. RM Typewriter (2009, +Medium, +Bold, +Old) is an old typewriter face. RM Serifangle (outline art nouveau face, +3D, +Chrome, +3DChrome) and RM Corrugation (postage stamp, white on black style) are both interesting. RM DECO Serif (2009) is in the RM Typewriter style series. RM Bowie Basic is a futuristic face based on the face used on Mars in "The Waters of Mars" (2009). RM Playtime Stencil (2009) is a rounded stencil face based on RM Playtime Solid. There are more styles such as RM Playtime 3D. Additions in 2010: RM New Albion (blackletter), RM Lined, RM Serifangle (+3D, +3D Chrome), RM Serifancy (Western face), RM Almanack (+Old), RM Tubeway (+Chrome), RM Thinny, RN White Letter, RM Blacklet, RM Squarial (+Ribbon), RM Typewriter Old, RM 7even, RM SideSlip, RM Teeny, RM Teeny 1.5, RM Narrowboat (+3D) (athletic lettering). His faces at MyFonts include RM Victoriana (2010, caps only Victorian face), RM Whiteletter (2010), RM Signwriter (athletic lettering), RM Deco (pure Broadway art deco), RM True to Type (typewriter face), RM Scrapheap, RM Elegance (condensed, with high ascenders), RM Playtime, Graphite Creations in 2011: RM Celtic, RM Uncialic, RM A Sign of the Times, RM Sans, RM Oliver (bold rounded sans), RM Soft Sans (wonderfully round sans), RM True To Old Type (old typewriter), RM True to Type (new typewriter), RM Phatso, RM Phatso 2.0, RM Phatso 2.0 Solid (texture faces). Creations in 2012: RM Luceat (a bullethole typeface), RM Jazz Age, RM Basic Serif (roman face), Alphabox (a 3d family: +Reverse, +Lite, +Reverse Stencil), RM Slab, RM Slabb, RM Tubes (3d typeface), RM Smoothsans (rounded sans), RM Romantic Carved (+Shadow: a beautiful set of beveled faces). Typefaces from 2013: RM Westus (Western, spurred), RM Hunky (chunky and modular), RM Thunk, Westward Ho (spurred Western face), RM Hangle (chuunky and elliptical). Abstract Fonts link. Dafont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
FontStructor who made Dwarvish (2010, runic). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Redruth's Basement Software
| Tom Redruth is the American designer of Black Sam's Gold, based on handwritten characters from a map reprinted in the NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC (vol. 195 no. 5; May 1999). Looks like treasure map writing. He designed Fountain Pen Frenzy in 2001 [compare with Treefrog]. This font was used on the cover of an album by Belle Monroe&her Brewglass Boys. Other faces include Bellamy's-Mapbats, Whydah-Heck-Poker, and the old typewriter face Carpal Tunnel (2003, based on a Remington typewriter). Finally, he made the Tolkien rune faces Tengwar-Teleri (2003) and Tengwar Marzabul (2002). Fontspace link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Reinhold Kainhofer
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In 2010, he added Amanuensis (blackletter) and Claredont (like Clarendon) and Claredont Stencil (2011). In 2011, he did the Yin Yang face Taiji, Noptical (+2x2), Genjimon, Festive, and the stencil face Vertical Basic. FontStructions from 2012: Belltower (a narrow didone), Stark (inspired by the Iron Man movie logo). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Richard J. Dumbrill
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Richard Kegler
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Thomaston, CT-based author of The Barefoot Hiker (1993). FontStructor whose fonts in 2011 include Frumfceaft Uncial (an outlined art nouveau face with uncial roots), Barefoot Hikers (a roman face done for his book), Caedmon, Nikonorian (needlepoint face), Frumfceaft Rune (an anglo-saxon rune face), Barefoot Standard. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Aka the "Undergrond Grammarian". Designer of Amazigh-GraphicLight (a Berber font), ThebGL (Greekish runes, 1994), Morelife, Landliebe (2001, a connected roughly outlined script), Scarlett (2007, a gorgeous Mexican party theme font), Graphic Light, and Light Painter (1994). Font Squirrel link. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Richard Starkings
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RK Ancient Fonts
| Free fonts for Sanskrit, Old Greek, Ugaritic, Meroitic, Oldpersian Cuneiform by Reinhold Kainhofer: RK-Meroitic-(Demotic), RK-Meroitic-(Hieroglyphics), RK-Meroitic-Transscript, RK-Persian-Cuneiform, RK-Sanskrit, RK-Ugaritic-Transscript, RK-Ugaritic. Kainhofer is based at Karl Franz University in Graz, Austria. Direct download. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Robert D. Anderson
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Designer of the rune font Robert's_Runes (2001), free at the Technische Universitat Wien site. Ten more complete fonts here for 8USD. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Roland Huse
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Designer of the Tengwar font Tencele Latinwa (2004, Mans Björkman's Tengwar Parmaite), Elfetica (2004, based on Max Miedinger's Helvetica), and Tengwar Hereno (2004, a completion of Paulo A. Otto's 1994 font Tengwar 04). He also made the rune font Gondolinic (2003). Designer at FontStruct in 2008 of connexa, metrica. Another URL. Another URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
rov-ket
| rov_ket.ttf is a runes script truetype font created by Dr. Hosszú Gábor. Page in Hungarian. See also here. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Creator of Odisea Astral Hacia Ganímedes (2007, runic) and HURT ME Please (2007, gothic). Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
American artist (b. 1989). Designer of the artificial language font Uteran (2006). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Rune Fonts
| Bob Oswald's commercial rune fonts foundry in the UK. Each font contains 40 characters representing all the runes of both the Elder (Norse) Futhark and the Anglo-Saxon (Frisian) Futhorc: RuneGrafic (Bevel, Engraved, Ruins, Twigs), RuneSans (Regular, Bold, Italic, Light, Outline), RuneCraft (Regular, Bold, Italic, Light, Outline), RuneMaster (Regular, Bold, Italic, Light, Outline). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Rune fonts at TypOasis
| Rune font site where one can download Manfred's runes: EtruskRough (2005), ModernRunes (2003), Petitx (2003), PetitixButSet, PetitixCallig, ReadableGothic (2003), Runes Written (2003), TheRomanRunesAlliance (2003), Twiggy (2001), GerManish (2003), RuneStones (2003), RuniK (2002), RunishMK (2002), RunishQuill (2003), TodayRunes (2004). Other free fonts there include Gothic Love Letters (1999, Belladonna), Gothic (Petra Heidorn) and Futharken (1995, Morton Bek). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Links to rune fonts and ancient script fonts, by Daniel Steven Smith. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Great pages on the history and background of the rune script, brought to you by CybaPee and Manfred Klein, who also contributes a few new rune fonts to the pages: ModernRunes, PetitixButSet, PetitixCallig, ReadableGothic, Runes Written, TheRomanRunesAlliance, GerManish, RuneStones. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Runenprojekt Kiel
| At the University of Kiel, Prof. Edith Marold and Dr. Christiane Zimmermann are working on a runes project. There is a free font for now: Runenprojekt (2000). It seems though that both the font and the project are stalled. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Pages about the history and development of the rune script. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Runes
| Manfred Klein retraced the roots of writing in central Europe before the middle ages. There was indeed a Germanic hookish style of writing that I will group under "runes". Some of his typefaces: AngloSaxonItalic, GermanishOne, LatinLoversRunes, MKRunes-Light, MKRunes, ModernRunes, RuneStones, RunesWritten-Bold, RunesWritten, RuniK100-Bold, RuniK100-Bold, RuniK50-Normal, RuniKleinFreeform, RunishMKMedium, RunishQuillMK-Medium, RunishQuillMK, TheRomanRunesAlliance, TodayRunes, EtruskRough, RunishQuillBlackSquares (2007), CalligImprovis (2007). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
FontStructor who made the blackletter rune font Swortstaefs (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
RuneTide
| The RuneTide truetype font was created by Oyar Mickevics. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Runfonter
| From Sweden, Svante Lagman's rune fonts, Runlitt and Futhark-A. These are some of the most professional rune fonts available today. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Rune alhabet as shown in William Dwight Whitney's The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: An encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language (New York: The Century Co., 1889). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Runic bibliography by Jan Axelson (Stockholm/Uppsala), James E. Knirk (Oslo) and Jonas Nordby (Oslo). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Espen S. Ore is the project leader at Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities, Bergen, Norway. As part of this work a database comprising the runic inscriptions at the Historic Museum in Bergen will be built. Other runes will be added, and plans are to expand the search to Sweden and Denmark as well. Anne.Haavaldsen is another runologist heading the project. The steering committee consists of professors Helge J.J. Dyvik, Odd Einar Haugen and Richard H. Pierce of the University of Bergen. Included is the Gullskoen font (Odd Einar Haugen (University of Bergen, Department of Scandinavian languages and literature, Sydnesplassen 7, 5007 Bergen, Norway) and Gullhornet. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
List of runologists maintained by James knirk. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Rune fonts such as TengwarGandalfRoman (1993, Michael S. Elliott), DSA-Symbole (Ralf D. Renz), Zhayad and Nanduria. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Salim George Khalaf
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Designer in Melbourne. A runic alphabet inspired him to create the futuristic high-contrast face Saxon (2010) and the runic Saxon Stone (2010). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The "Scandinavian runic text database" is a data base of runic scripts. By Lennart Elmevik and Lena Peterson Institutionen för nordiska språk of Uppsala universitet. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Samuel John Ross
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Five truetype fonts like Enochian Regular and Elder Futhark. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Sarah Combs (aka Queen Simia) is a cartoonist from the Midwest United States. She designed Precursor Alpha (2005), an artificial language font seen in Naughty Dog Inc's Jak and Dexter. Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
15 Gothic and runic fonts are archived here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
FontStructor who made Fin-struct (2012), Scawtish Broadpen (2012, calligraphic face), Eldar Furhark (2012), Iltantu Tiveta (2012, Tibetan), Iltantu Romu (2012), Anglo-Saxon Small (2012), Alesati Neo-block (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Original rune fonts by "Schueler", and some other ones: AlphGeniiFzpg100 (runes by Fuzzypeg), Alphabet-of-the-Magi, Angelic-Regular (Digital Type Foundry, 1992), AntoniousNormalThin (Greek), AntoniousOLOverLineThin, Astro (astrological symbols, Laser Printing Solutions&Cosmorama Enterprises, 1991-1992), DEEnoch (1997), Daggers (Digital Type Foundry, 1992), Enochian-Regular (Digital Type Foundry, 1991), Gary (astrological symbols), KoineMedium (Greek), Malachim (by Fuzzypeg), Schuelers-Enochian, Shalom (1993, Hebrew), ThebGL (Greekish runes by Richard Mitchell, the Underground Grammarian, 1994), Theban. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Japanese designers of the Hebrew font Yahweh, the rune font Odein, and the angelic font Michael. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Sebastian Kempgen
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Sebastien martin
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Designer of the rune font "Icelandic Runes" (1998). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Shigeru Hasegawa
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American cartoonist. Creator of the runes face Post Apocalyptic Font (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
SIAS (or: Signographical Institute Andreas Stötzner)
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He created Andron Scriptor (2004, free), with original ideas for Greek and Cyrillic alphabets. The Andron project intends to extend this Venetian text face in many directions: right now, it covers Latin, Greek, Coptic, Gothic, runes, Cyrillic, Etruscan and Irish scripts, musical symbols, astronomical and meteorological symbols, and many dingbats. The Andron MC Corpus series (2012) contains Uncial, Mediaeval and Capital styles. Other fonts: Gramma (2007, three dingbats with basic geometric forms), Andron Corpus Publix (2007, dingbats including one called Transport), SIAS Freefont (2007, more dingbats), SIAS Lineaturen (2007, geometric dingbats) SIAS Symbols (2009), Andron Freefont (2009, text font), Andron 1 Latin Corpus (2009), Andron 1 Greek Corpus (2009), Andron Kyrillisch (2009, consisting of Andron 1 CYR, Andron 2 CYR and Andron 2 SRB where SRB stands for Serbian), Andron 2 English Corpus (2010, blackletter-inspired alphabet), Andron 2 Deutsch Corpus (2010), Andron Ornamente (2012), Reinstaedt (2009, blackletter family), Crisis (2009, economic sans). Lapidaria (2010) is an elegant art deco sans family that includes an uncial style and covers Greek. Hibernica (2010) is a Celtic variant of Lapidaria. Symbojet Bold (2010) is a combination of a Latin and Greek sans face with 400 pictograms. Rosenbaum (2012) is a festive blackletter face, obtained by mixing in didone elements. In 2013, he published Arthur Cabinet, a six-style inline art deco caps collection of typefaces, with accomapnying Arthur Ornaments. Showcase of Andreas Stötzner's typefaces at MyFonts. View the SIAS typeface library. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Simon Wright
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Skaven Runes
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Dead link. Interesting type pages on old Norwegian lettering. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
FontStructor who made Tolkien Dwarvish (2010), Regality (2011, kitchen tile face), Regal (2011), Bit Trip (2011, from the Bit Trip series of games), TRON Legacy (2010, +Full, +UC: futuristic, after the movie), Negative UC (2010), Razorback UC (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of Gimbutas (1999), a font for Vinca symbols (Mac, PC), found on many of the artefacts excavated from sites in south-east Europe, in particular from Vinca near Belgrade, but also in Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Eastern Hungary, Moldova, Southern Ukraine and the former Yugoslavia. The artefacts date from between the 7th and 4th millennia BC and those decorated with these symbols are between 8,000 and 6,500 years old. Sorin works at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literature at the University of Bucharest, Romania. The drawings of the Gimbutas font were by Doina Mihaila. See also here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of the runic or artificial language face ChaosPattern (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in Oslo in 1982, Stein Strindhaug is a developer. He designed the artificial language fonts Qvasi Chalem (2007), Qvasi Pen Font (2007) and Qvasi Runes Font. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German designer of the freeware font Alphabet of the Magi, Alphabet of Daggers, and of Masonic-Rosicrucean (1997). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Steve Tinney
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Stichting Malatië Adventures
| Three original truetype fonts for magical effects and encrypting text: Priesterrunen and Malatië Magisch Maanschrift (1997) are made by Alex Révész. Drakenrunen (Nanduria) is by Ralph Renz. Can't find the fonts any more. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
FontStructor who made the modular faces Basic (2010) and Greater Robotics (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Storm Type Foundry
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Alternate URL. Myfonts write-up. At ATypI 2004 in Prague, he spoke about his own Czech typefaces, on his Czech Typeface Project, and on the life of Josef Týfa. Linotype link. FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
A few truetype fonts including the rune font NeoNordic. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Foundry in Vienna that makes gorgeous commercial fonts for African languages. These pictograms are so nice that I will list each of them. The complete font set retails for about 1000 USD.
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Categorized font archive with Asian, Balloo, Ball, Blackletter, Broken, Brushstroke, Chiselled, Computer, Crazy, Runic, Scary, Script, Slanted, StarTrek, Stencil, TV/Movie, Typewriter, Uncial, and Western categories. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Sue Lang ("Zillah", "Moon in Aquarius") died on December 28, 2008. Under the alias Zillah, she made many free fonts at her now defunct Moon in Aquarius site, mostly made between 2001 and 2003: Zahstro Two, Zahstrology (handwriting; with astrological symbols), Zill O Wisp, Zill-O-Zynth, Zill Spills, ZillahModern (+Thin, Outline, Narrow, Expanded), Zillah Zoodles, Zillaroonies (runes and polyhedra), Zillgothex, Zilluncial. Her dingbat fonts were based on drawings by Last Horse (2003): Z-Most Critter, Z-Most Critter 2, Z-Most Devil, Z-Most Diva, Z-Most Eye 1, Z-Most Eye 2, Z-Most Foot, Z-Most Kachina 1, Z-Most Kachina 2, Z-Most Kachina 3, Z-Most Trickster, Z-Most Zimple. Postscriptum: I found a Sue Lang at the Zillah Library in Zillah, WA. Could that have been her? Can anyone help? Fontspace link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Sun-ExtA and Sun-ExtB are two full free Unicode fonts, covering everything under the sun. Inside, we find information that these fonts were made by Beijing ZhongYi Electronics Co. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Svante Lagman
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Dutch graphic designer from Zaandam (b. 1944), who created the Swip alphabet and typeface in 2002. It is an alphabet in which each symbol represents one Latin character, as in a code. Careful: this page resets the browser window size. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator in 2009 at FontStruct of Blizzard Rune. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Tales of Doth
| Matt Mesanko's original fonts for the Tales of Doth pages, halfway between horror and rune fonts: Dothen-Elisorel (2000), Eslisler (2000). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Ted Kloba
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Ted Kloba's Conlang Orthography Museum
| Ted Kloba offers fonts for artificial languages: Qibu and Qiqidu are for Abibin. Fmexrdiei and Gacaya are for Agryziexabeiuie, an alphabet influenced by Georgian (mkhedruli), Armenian and Malayalam (vattezhuthu). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Tengwar and Cirth
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Tengwar (English)
| Daniel S. Smith's page on Tengwar fonts. Has free fonts for Mac and PC. Metafont examples by Julian Bradfield and Michael Urban. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Tengwar (French)
| Sebastien Martin's French page on J.R. Tolkien fonts. Has some free fonts. Has free fonts for Mac and P C. Metafont examples by Julian Bradfield and Michael Urban. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Teup
| Mathieu Klomp (Teup) is the Dutch designer of Barbed Ink (2003, a liquid font) and Runes (2003). Alternate URL. Web page was located in Tokelau??? Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
The Cemetary
| Free truetype fonts by Simon Wright from Leeds: F&H-Ronish---export, F&H-Ronish---scratch, F&H-Ronish---style, F&H-Ronish---freehand, F&H-Ronish---freehand-2. These are Ronisch "runes" mixed in with a Latin font. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
The City of Pillars--Skaven Downloads
| Bob Lippmann's "Skaven True Type Font: This is a true type font based on the Skaven runes and symbols from the Army Book, and a few more." [Google] [More] ⦿ |
"Ronish fonts for MS Windows, Ronish is the in-character alphabet for Fools and Heroes." The fonts are created by Simon Wright from Leeds. List: F&H-Ronish---export, F&H-Ronish---scratch, F&H-Ronish---style, F&H-Ronish---freehand, F&H-Ronish---freehand-2. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Page on Hungarian runic writing by Gábor Heves. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The Tales of Doth
| Matt Masanko's runic and medieval font archive. He made Esisler and Elisorel. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
The Tengwar of Fëanor
| Enrique Mombello is the Argentinian designer of the Tengwar Elfica fonts (2003). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
60-font archive. Mainly medieval, gothic and uncial fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The Tolkien Homepage
| Morton Bek's web page where one can find his free fonts Futhark (old Scandinavian), Moon Runes (Anglosaxon runes), Angerthas-Moria (a Cirth font). Alternate page. Yet another URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Celtic font archive (PC). Includes some Futhark, Angerthas, Ogham and Tengwar runes. Plus several Celtic links. Celtic dingbats with goodies such as Celtic Frames, Orient Patterns, Celtic Patterns, Tattoo, Spirals, Celtic Border. Also, Celtic Zoomorphics was created by Vicky Yan. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Danish designer of the rune font Elver Runer. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Thomas Maska
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Rune, Viking, Celtic, Germanic font archive. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of Oxford Runes (2005). I could not locate that font on his site, which is now dedicated to photography. Tilman also runs the successful German / English font archive Fontasy.de. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Timberwolf Type
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Truetype fantasy font by The Sarati of Rúmil based on Tolkien, The Book of Lost Tales. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
FontStructor who made the runic faces Runic With Markings (2011), Runic Younger Futhark (2011), and Runic Short Twig (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Todd Jordan Greywolf Peacock
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Californian anime artist. Creator of the runic simulation face Runic Facade (2007). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Small archive with Tolkien rune fonts. Direct access. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
here are a number of freely available fonts for writing with the scripts invented by J.R.R. Tolkien. This package makes it vastly easier to use those fonts with pdfTeX and pdfLaTeX. The fonts themselves are not part of the package. Specifically, this package provides support for writing English, Quenya, and Sindarin with tengwar and cirth/angerthas. It also provides support for writing Dwarvish with cirth, Quenya with sarati and valmaric letters, and English with Anglo-Saxon runes, as used in The Hobbit. It supports the use of the fonts Tengwar Annatar, Cirth Erebor, Sarati Eldamar, Valmaric Eldamar, and can be easily edited to support Tengwar Eldamar, Tengwar Parmaite, Tengwar Noldor, Tengwar Quenya, and Tengwar Sindarin. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German sitewith two Tolkien truetype fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Tom Redruth
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Tommy of Escondido's Alien Fonts Page
| The best Startrek and Alien Fonts page. Many fonts here are made by Tommy of Escondido (in real life: Californian Ben Debaan), Mike H. Lee and Josh Dixon. You will find: Bajoran, Borg, Cardassian, Dominion/Jem Hadar canon, Ferengi, Tim Miller Ferengi, Old Style Klingon, Hollow, New Style Klingon, Q'onos, Rihannsu Romulan, Trill, Old Vulcan beta release, Modern Vulcan, Qo'noS (1998), Kazon, Fabrini, Preserver, Binar, El Aurian, Malcorian, Voth, Vidiian, Krenim, Nyrian, Taresian. Centauri, Cardassian, B5 Windings, Binar, StarTrek, Babylon 5, SF Alien fonts. Also, a Dune Chakobsa language page. Great alian fonts page. Has special pages with Startrek fonts such as Kilrathi, Babylon 5 alien fonts, made principally by Mike H. Lee (Vorlon, Minbari, Minbari type II, Shadow, Narn, Pak'ma'ra, The Great Machine of Epsilon 3, Centauri, Babylon 5 wingdings, Markab, Brakiri, Gaim, Drazi, Hyach, Abbai, Llort, Anti-Life Runes, B5 Station Human). We also find New Aurabesh by Peter Schuster, Yavin 4 by Tommy of Escondido, Ewok by Mike H. Lee, Guild by Mike H. Lee&Josh Dixon, Fremen by Mike H. Lee, Josh Dixon&John Quijada, Galach (Imperial) by Mike H. Lee, Josh Dixon, Dinotopian by Mike H. Lee&Josh Dixon, Drac by Mike H. Lee&Josh Dixon, Krell by Mike H. Lee, Kromagg by Mike H. Lee, Kzinti by Daniel U. Thibault, SG-1 Go-ald by Tommy, Thomas More Utopian by Mike H. Lee, Visitor by Tommy. Newest fonts: ST Insurrection Son'a.ttf, Twighlight Zone "to serve man" Kanamit.ttf, Babylon 5 Life Machine ttf. Time Digital on Ben Debaan. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Norwegian freelance graphic designer since the mid 1980s. He joined the P22 crew in 2008. His fonts there:
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Typefaces from 2012: Valley (a ball and stick display face), Basel(Basel is a heavy sans serif font that began as a revival of the metal type Spartan Black, an American copy of Futura developed in 1936, but ultimately took on a character of its own during the process). Behance link. Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Free dingbats and runes "for mapping the continents, towns, castles, and dungeons of the Ultima series of roleplaying games made by Origin Systems": UltimapDungeon (1999), UltimapEntities (1999), UltimapIntown (1999), UltimapLetters (1999), UltimapOutdoors (1999). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Australian designer (b. 1984, based in Newcastle) of Old Republic (2007, headline sans), 5x5 (2006, pixel), Blokhed (2006, a fat octagonal face), Runic Font (2004) and Charon Script (2004), used for an artificial language. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designers of the runes fonts Thorass (2000) and TSR Elvish Alphabet Key. They had the dingbat font DL5AIcons Regular custom-designed for them. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A truetype font called Tyeif Prayers, with symbols that mean something to a Hindu sect (I guess). They also have at same site an AUM font with a religious logo. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Typeface Research Pty Ltd
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Harry is the owner of Typeface Research Pty. Ltd. of Lake Cathie, Australia. Author of Decorate with Type An encyclopedia of decorative and novelty fonts (2011), in which he proposes a new categorization of decorative types. MyFonts link. Bio at Bitstream. FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Typography by Vid the Kid
| David Kovalchik (Vid the kid) is the designer of the free monospaced font StringLiteral (2005), which is specially crafted for reading computer code on screen (large differentiation between characters). Other free fonts, all dated 2004-2005: EngineeringPlotLight, Magick-Medium (bewitched curly letters), Old-Block-Black, StringVariable, VidsNorse (rune font), DavidSys (pixel face), DavidCons (pixel face). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
From Essex University, Alan M. Stanier's metafont for Ugaritic, a cuneiform alphabet (as opposed to the syllabic cuneiform of Akkadian or Hittite), as found on tablets dated from the Late Bronze Age (ca 1400 - 1200 BC) in Northern Syria and Palestine, notably in the archives at Ugarit. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Medium-sized archive with many gothic and rune fonts: ACharmingFont, ACharmingFontExpanded, ACharmingFontItalic, ACharmingFontLeftleaning, ACharmingFontOutline, ACharmingFontSuperexpanded, Abaddon, Anglican, Anglo-Saxon-Caps, AngloSaxonRunes, AngloSaxonRunes1, AngloSaxonRunes2, Barock, BarronRegularSWFTE, Beckett, Belphebe, Beowulf1, Beowulf1Alt, BlackNight, BloodOfDracula, Buffied, Cadeaulx, CasablancaAntiquePlain, CheshireInitials, CloisterBlackBT-Regular, Dearest, DearestOpen, DearestOutline, DemonNight, Deutsch-Gothic, Diamond-Gothic, Die-Nasty, DingMaps, Distress, DropCaps, DwarfRunes, DwarfRunes1, DwarfRunes2, EddieTrial, EngraversOldEnglishBT-Regular, EtTuBrute, ExocetHeavy, ExocetLight, Florana_Initials, FutharkAOE, FutharkInlineAOE, GF-Gesetz, GargoyleSSi, GermanicRunes, GermanicRunes1, GermanicRunes2, Goethe, GoreFontII, GothicHijinx, GothicHijinxHollow, GothicHijinxRough, Gothic_Love_Letters, Gothicum, Gothicum, GoudyMedieval, Helloween, HieroglyphRL, IRONGATE, IcedEarth, InvisibleKiller, Iron-Maiden, Junius-Rough, Junius, JuniusBold, JuniusBoldItalic, JuniusItalic, JuniusModern, JuniusModernBold, JuniusModernBoldItalic, JuniusModernItalic, JuniusSmallCaps, JuniusStandard, JuniusStandardBold, JuniusStandardBoldItalic, JuniusStandardItalic, Karloff, LinguineLinguist, LogosCorporate-VOL1A, Magdeburg, ManuscriptRegularSWFTE, MegadethCryptic, Minster6, MinsterNo1, MinsterNo2, MinsterNo3, MinsterNo4, MinsterNo5, Morpheus, Mortbats, Ogilvie, OldEnglish, Pastor-ofMuppets, PrinceNormal, RK-Meroitic-(Hieroglyphics), RammsteinRemix, RingbearerMedium, Riot-Act, RoadSign, Ruritania, Shlop, Shredded, Slayer, SolsticeOfSuffering, Squealer, TengwarCursive, TengwarGandalfMedium, TfuTfu, Times-OldEnglishItalic, Times-OldEnglishRegular, TrollOathbound, TudorSSi, TudorScriptSSi, Uechi-Regular, VikingMedium, deicide, gothic-1, naked-monk. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Unicorn Jelly
| Free rune-type font by Jennifer Diane Reitz entitled Alpabe (2002). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Uppercase Type
| Baltimore, MD-based foundry of Zach Risso (b. 1988), an American novelist who is currently attending the Maryland Institute College of Art for a BFA in graphic design. Risso designed the dot matrix face Found Receipt (2008), Schriftbild Grotesk (2008), and the rune face Elder Futhark (2008). Alternate URL. Home page. Dafont link. Fontsy link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
German designer (b. 1976) who lives near Düsseldorf. For roleplaying, she created the runic font Anja1Anja1 (also called Hemoroui) (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Uwe Zimmermann
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Malmö, Sweden-based designer of the free rune simulation font Vidir Futhark (1997). Danish home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Viking
| Uwe Zimmermann designed the metafont Viking (2003). He explains: "The package VIKING contains the two 16 letter runic alphabets as used by the vikings in Scandinavia. It is based on the archaic font series by Peter Wilson and uses the same, simple installation and interface routines." [Google] [More] ⦿ |
St. Flour, France-based designer (b. 1991) of Runes - The elder scroll (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Small archive: AuntJudy, BloodFeast, BloodOfDracula, Brrrrr-Regular, CSLUncialUSA, CelticBold, FetteFraktur, GermanicRunes, Heidelberg-Normal, MysticEtchingsNormal, RUNEnglish1, RUNEnglish2, Runic-Regular, SchwabenAlt-Bold, Sherwood-Regular, Suetterlin. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Berlin-based creator of the display face Belgrad (2012), and of Runes (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The Verdurian language is an artificial language for which some truetype fonts were created, e.g., Verduria (1994, Mark Rosenfelder). Other artificial language fonts on this site: Eleisa (1994, Mark Rosenfelder), Barakhinei (1999, Verdurian Computing), Axunashin (1998, Mark Rosenfelder). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designers of the 4 USD face Neutral Glyphs (2003), which has 65 arcane symbols. They also made Halfling Hero (2003) for game-playing purposes. Other fonts: Law Glyphs&Runes, Chaos Runes&Glyphs, Draconic, Deep Dwarven, Wizard Kanji, Dark Urth Heiroglyphic. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
This small dingbat archive has some fonts from Dragon Den's Foundry: Ork-Glyphs (1995), Imperial-Symbols (1998). Also: JFRockOutcrop (2000., Jester Font Studio), Tau (2000, Games Workshop Ltd, digitixzed by Marc Gascoigne of the Black Library), Orky, Marines, ChaoSquat, Eldar. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Walt Disney releases some fonts such as its own rune font, Atlantean (1999), made for the movie Atlantis. Direct download. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Warhammer fonts
| Five original dingbat fonts in truetype: ChaoSquat, Eldar Runes, Imperial1, Marines, Orky1, all made in 1995. The name of the creator is "Mike". And Tau, a gorgeous futuristic font, made in 2000 by Marc Gascoigne. See also here. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Pogo is a Buenos Aires-based design and art boutique established in 2008 by Ardi and Pampa. Creators of Know Type (2009, experimental), Zombienation (2009, graffiti), Primavera (2009, geometric experiment), Know Type (2010, geometric), Bufallo Type (2010), and Departure Type (2009, runic), Moonwalker (2010). Soko is an independent online magazine entirely designed and illustrated by POGO. Scumbag (2011) is a Victorian wedge serif face. Typefaces from the latter part of 2011 and the first half of 2012: Unicenter, Sailor, Rudy, Powa, Mery (Trajan caps), Lotus Flower, Liberty, Aquarius Bold (Trajan caps). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Wesley A. Bomar (yi3artist) is the American designer of the artificial language script faces PhonnishBrushed, PhonnishCourier, PhonnishThick (2003). This page explains the coding scheme of Phonnish. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Runes at YLC: DTF Futhark (Digital Type Foundry), German Rune, Trondheim, Bryggen (by Odd Einar Haugen at the University of Bergen, Norway), DTF Turkish Runes (Digital Type Foundry). All fonts for the Mac. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Yasuhiro Yamaoka
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Yehuda Ronen
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Free fonts with a Norse/Celtic theme: YY Sword and Dagger (2005), YY Norseman Dingbats (2005), YY Old English Dingbats (2005), YY Uncial Most Irish (2005, uncial), YYUMIExtendedCharacters (2005). In 2006, these dingbat fonts were added: 001Disney'sPooh1, 001Disney'sPooh2, 001Disney'sPooh3, 001PoohClassicDings, 001PoohHolidayDings, 001StarshipGmma (Startrek theme), 001 Once Upon a Time (2006), 001 Medieval Daze (2006), 001 Stretched-Strung (2006), Broken Robot (2006, pixelized), 001 Interstellar Log (2006), 001 System Analysis (2006), 001 Once Upon a Time 2 (2006). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
YOFonts
| YOFonts offers beautiful fonts like Trafica and Engraver Sans by Yasuhiro Yamaoka. Most are commercial. Some can be downloaded as freeware or shareware. Fontsquirrel link [where one can download Eau (+Douce Sans, +Naturelle Sans, 2003), EPF (1999-2006), Grov (2000-2002), Midiet (1990-2009, sans and serif), Nord (1992-2000, elliptical), and Telegrama (1992, pixelish)]. Freeware fonts (Mac/PC): Crematec Bold, Glyphian (runic), Grov Alphabet Regular / Italic / Condensed (1999), Grov Katakana, Grov Hiragana, Laitty (1993-1997, upright connected script), Lapidit (1994-2002, experimental), Liq (1995, LCD face), IgnorantModern (1993), Initia (geometric, circular), OneZero Alphabet, OneZero Katakana (pixel face), Ovals (border font), Quads (borderfont), SmooHG, SmooKK, Opuscula (2008-2011), Practica, Ovals Regular (Border font), Quads Regular (Border font). Font of the month (free): Philo AB, Philo KK, Philo HG. Other fonts: Angrite-Regular (1998), ArchaeoDeco (2001, art deco), Botaniq (organic, 2001-2002), Circles, CremSBold (1995-1997), CremacBea, CremacBeaBold, Crematec (techno), Cybertalk (2000), DippleKKS (1998, organic, molecular), Elementa (1990-1998, a techno family in Sans, Serif and Script styles), Engraver Sans (1995, Greek simulation family), Fact (1995-2005, information design family), Fol (1995, octagonal family), LiqMono, LiqMonoOblique, LiqRegular, LiqRegularOblique, ModCircle (1995), ModQuad (1996), Moderno (1997-2002, sans), Philo (1995-1996), Pica (1993-2005), Pixe (1992-1998), Practica (1991-2002, +Practica MsF), Nord-Bold (1998), OneZero-ABOneZero (1998), OneZero-ABZeroOne (1998), OneZero-ABZeroZero (1998), OneZero-KKOneOne (1998), OneZero-KKOneZero (1998), OneZero-KKZeroOne (1998), OneZero-KKZeroZero (1998), Serian (1997-2005, a German Schreibschrift), Trafica (1999-2002). In Font Pavilion 12: Smoo (1997-1998, Latin, katakana, hiragana). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Yudit
| Yudit V1 is a sans face developed around 2008 by Gaspar Sinai with the help of Peter Soos, Ross Summerfield, George Sutton and Gabor Hosszu. Free download. The face also has some runic symbols. Others in this series include Yudit V1 JB (2008) and Yudit JB (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Yuki Ishimaru
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Zach Risso
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American creator (b. 1991) of Ciorheta (2009, a runic font for an artifcial language). His real name is Zach M. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
zx26 (also: Zero Xenon 26)
| Free Mac and Windows fonts. Fonts at this Japanese site include Zasf, Vzx, Zxr, ZX26, Xecrics, 35base, 35rounds, 35lines, 35base-wide, WA50 (katakana), WA100 (kata), Cookai (strange kanjis), Zecoo (stranger kanjis), Toyokuni (are these old Japanese glyphs?), Izumo (weird glyphs), Ahiru (same), Ainu (runes), Maya2012 (Maya dingbats), Jet 1999 (under construction), Hotsuma (runes). All fonts are futuristic and may (?) have been made by Otani Hideaki from Tokyo. Hint: click on the 24 buttons on the left part of the cockpit. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Ohioan Bill Roach (b. 1966) created the script face Goldilocks (2009, +Reprised), Hollow Roachian Futhark (2009, runic), Anfalas (bumpy poster font), and the techno face Glyphstream (2009). 
Creators in 2008 of a series of detailed free fonts: 
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Argentinian designer, b. 1984, and graphic design student at FADU in Buenos Aires. Creator of the award-quality simulated runic face 
Born in Karlstad, Sweden, in 1952, 
Wonderful 16-th century (commercial) fonts from this Manchester, UK-based foundry, including the 
Fonts and dingbats for gamers by S. John Ross from Austin, TX, and Denver, CO. Typefaces include Sans Sara (2011, organic sans), Growly Grin (2011), Powell and Geary (2011), 
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Graphic designer in Sierre and Lausanne. During her studies at ECAL (Lausanne), she made a cinematographic signage typeface called 
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Great fonts for astrology, hieroglyphics, alchemy and the occult, by Toronto's Jan and Denise Koehler, mostly designed between 1993 and 1995. They moved to Litomerice, the Czech Republic, recently. 
Partner of Jan Koehler in 
Not to be confused with Phil's Fonts, Phil Fonts offers charityware fonts by Phillip Andrade who uses the nicknames Dry Bohnz, neatoguy and 
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Art director in Munich, Germany. 
At Fontgrube AH, Andreas Höfeld, a protestant pastor from Erbach/Odenwald, designed these typefaces: 
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Japanese font foundry committed to making open license fonts based on old prints. It is run by Judicare and Eunice. 
Hanoded is the 
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Harold Lohner was born in upstate New York in 1958. He received an MFA in printmaking from the University at Albany and is Professor of Visual Arts at Sage College of Albany. He began making fonts in 1997 and starting distributing them the next year through Harold's Fonts. He lives in Albany, NY, with his partner, Al Martino. Originally, most of his typefaces were freeware or shareware, but gradually, he started selling most on his site or via 
Born in Philadelphia and a resident of Texas, Dan Zadorozny's creations at Iconian. He is a prolific type designer who specializes in techno and sci-fi typefaces. 
Ripon, CA-based designer of 
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Marseille, France-based designer of Argor Priht Scaqh (2007, blackletter), Argor Brujsh Scaqh (2007, blackletter), Argor Cwar Scaqh (2006, pixel blackletter), Argor Biw Scaqh (2006, blackletter), Argor Flahm Scaqh (2001, blackletter), Argor-Got-Scaqh (2001, blackletter) and Argor-Man-Scaqh (2001). The author's fonts can be used for his artificial language Silarg. 
Foundry in Copenhagen which sells the fonts made by 
Fairfax, VA-based creator (b. 1990) of the informally handprinted font Rushil (2008). 
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Calgary-based designer of 
Frankfurt-based designer (b. 1932) whose creative output is so large that he deserves a 
Gary Munch (born 1953) is the Stamford, CT-based principal of MunchFonts. He teaches at Norwalk Community College and at the University of Bridgeport Shintaro Akatsu School of Design.. His typefaces: 
Aussie Nancy Lorenz (aka Lothlorien, and aka Queen of Spain Font Girl) created fonts in the theme of Lord of the Rings, all in a medieval handwriting or uncial style or Tolkien style: Party Business, Bilbo-hand-Bold-Bold (2002), Bilbo-hand-fine (2002), Bilbo-handRegular (2002), 
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Freeware fonts by Eric VanDycke from Warnerville, NY, aka Dr. Nimbus. Original and very very enjoyable creations from 1997-1998. The site was closed in March 1999, unfortunately! Thanks to CybaPee, you can download the whole collection now. 
Peter Rempel (b. 1958) is a Winnipeg-based calligrapher. 
Free original designs, often with a science fiction feel, by Neale Davidson (b. 1971). Does some custom font work. 
Aka p2pnut, b. Wales, 1943, who started making fonts in 2009 at FontStruct. 
Designer at FontStruct (aka Riccard0) in 2009 of 
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Lars Bergquist is the Swedish type designer (b. 1936) who runs Timberwolf Type in Sollentuna, just outside Stockholm. Bergquist designed numerous successful text families and display faces, including the free 
Aka Rursus, this Swedish viking calls himself a nerd and a cyber vagabond---exactly my kind of guy! Designer of the slab typewriter font for Latin and Cyrillic called Rursus Compact Mono (2007-2010), an Open Font Library font that 
Travis Stearns (was: 
Australian Harry Pears (b. The Quirindi, Australia) is a veteran of the type world. He started his career as a colour camera operator and then as a phototypesetter. He started marketing digital typefaces in Australia, and has designed a few fonts himself. Creator in 2001 of the Celtic look family 
